Encyclopedia Of Pestilence Pandemics And Plagues

Author : Joseph P. Byrne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1573569593
Total Pages : 917 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues [2 volumes] written by Joseph P. Byrne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 917 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editor Joseph P. Byrne, together with an advisory board of specialists and over 100 scholars, research scientists, and medical practitioners from 13 countries, has produced a uniquely interdisciplinary treatment of the ways in which diseases pestilence, and plagues have affected human life. From the Athenian flu pandemic to the Black Death to AIDS, this extensive two-volume set offers a sociocultural, historical, and medical look at infectious diseases and their place in human history from Neolithic times to the present. Nearly 300 entries cover individual diseases (such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, Ebola, and SARS); major epidemics (such as the Black Death, 16th-century syphilis, cholera in the nineteenth century, and the Spanish Flu of 1918-19); environmental factors (such as ecology, travel, poverty, wealth, slavery, and war); and historical and cultural effects of disease (such as the relationship of Romanticism to Tuberculosis, the closing of London theaters during plague epidemics, and the effect of venereal disease on social reform). Primary source sidebars, over 70 illustrations, a glossary, and an extensive print and nonprint bibliography round out the work.

Author : Joseph Patrick Byrne
Publisher : Abc-clio
ISBN 13 : 9780313341021
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues: A-M written by Joseph Patrick Byrne and published by Abc-clio. This book was released on 2008 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George C. Kohn
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438129238
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence written by George C. Kohn and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence, Third Edition is a comprehensive A-to-Z reference offering international coverage of this timely and fascinating subject. This updated volume provides concise descriptions of more than 700.

Author : Joseph Patrick Byrne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780313341038
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues: N-Z written by Joseph Patrick Byrne and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Childs Kohn
Publisher : Infobase Holdings, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1646937694
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence, Fourth Edition written by George Childs Kohn and published by Infobase Holdings, Inc. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the previous edition: "...the entries provide vivid historical detail...No other work approaches this topic in such a brief, encyclopedic manner...a useful addition to any academic reference collection..."-Choice "...a useful resource for high school and public libraries..."-Booklist "...does an excellent job...a conscious effort to put a human perspective on pestilence...Given the climate of the times and the concerns about bioterrorism, this title would be useful for a variety of subject areas. Recommended."-The Book Report Tracing the history of infectious diseases from the Philistine plague of 11th century BCE to the COVID-19 pandemic, Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence, Fourth Edition is a comprehensive A-to-Z reference offering international coverage of this timely and fascinating subject. This updated volume provides concise descriptions of more than 740 epidemics, listed alphabetically by location of the outbreak. Each detailed entry includes when and where a particular epidemic began, how and why it happened, who it affected, how it spread and ran its course, and its outcome and significance. Full-color and black-and-white photographs, maps, appendixes, a bibliography, and a chronology are also included. New and updated coverage includes: Cholera Cocoliztli COVID-19 Ebola H1N1 Hepatitis A HIV/AIDS Legionnaires' Disease Malaria MERS Rift Valley fever Typhoid Yellow Fever Zika

Author : George C. Kohn
Publisher : Wordsworth Edition
ISBN 13 : 9781853267536
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wordsworth Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence written by George C. Kohn and published by Wordsworth Edition. This book was released on 1998 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George C. Kohn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780788191510
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wordsworth Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence written by George C. Kohn and published by . This book was released on 1995-02-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity has always been vulnerable to and fearful of infectious disease. This is the first and most comprehensive book available on plague and pestilence. The detailed entries give concise descriptions of nearly 700 epidemics, together with when and where a particular epidemic began, how and why it happened, who it affected, how it spread and ran its course, and its outcome and significance. Provides answers to questions such as: Where did the Black Death originate? How many kinds of plague were there? How widespread was polio? The book may be read as a history and geography of world diseases. Includes a timetable and geographical appendix.

Author : Peter Furtado
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500776474
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History written by Peter Furtado and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening anthology from the bestselling editor of Histories of Nations, exploring how people around the globe have suffered and survived during plague and pandemic, from the ancient world to the present. Plague, pestilence, and pandemics have been a part of the human story from the beginning and have been reflected in art and writing at every turn. Humankind has always struggled with illness; and the experiences of different cities and countries have been compared and connected for thousands of years. Many great authors have published their eyewitness accounts and survivor stories of the great contagions of the past. When the great Muslim traveler Ibn Battuta visited Damascus in 1348 during the great plague, which went on to kill half of the population, he wrote about everything he saw. He reported, "God lightened their affliction; for the number of deaths in a single day at Damascus did not attain 2,000, while in Cairo it reached the figure of 24,000 a day." From the plagues of ancient Egypt recorded in Genesis to those like the Black Death that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages, and from the Spanish flu of 1918 to the Covid-19 pandemic in our own century, this anthology contains fascinating accounts. Editor Peter Furtado places the human experience at the center of these stories, understanding that the way people have responded to disease crises over the centuries holds up a mirror to our own actions and experiences. Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic includes writing from around the world and highlights the shared emotional responses to pandemics: from rage, despair, dark humor, and heartbreak, to finally, hope that it may all be over. By connecting these moments in history, this book places our own reactions to the Covid-19 pandemic within the longer human story.

Author : Joseph P. Byrne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1074 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Black Death written by Joseph P. Byrne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedia provides 300 interdisciplinary, cross-referenced entries that document the effect of the plague on Western society across the four centuries of the second plague pandemic, balancing medical history and technical matters with historical, cultural, social, and political factors. Encyclopedia of the Black Death is the first A–Z encyclopedia to cover the second plague pandemic, balancing medical history and technical matters with historical, cultural, social, and political factors and effects in Europe and the Islamic world from 1347–1770. It also bookends the period with entries on Biblical plagues and the Plague of Justinian, as well as modern-era material regarding related topics, such as the work of Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur, the Third Plague Pandemic of the mid-1800s, and plague in the United States. Unlike previous encyclopedic works about this subject that deal broadly with infectious disease and its social or historical contexts, including the author's own, this interdisciplinary work synthesizes much of the research on the plague and related medical history published in the last decade in accessible, compellingly written entries. Controversial subject areas such as whether "plague" was bubonic plague and the geographic source of plague are treated in a balanced and unbiased manner.

Author : Ben Hubbard
Publisher : Franklin Watts
ISBN 13 : 9781445179605
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plague written by Ben Hubbard and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines history's most destructive pandemics including The Black Death (Bubonic Plague); The Great Plague of London, the 1918 Spanish Flu, HIV/AIDS and more. It uses a narrative structure to describe the causes, events and eventual cessation of each outbreak. It features case stories of those affected, the science behind each disease, the physical symptoms and effects, and the different approaches to stopping or eradicating the diseases. This is a highly topical book that addresses the outbreak of COVID-19. It offers a message of hope to those worried or affected by COVID-19. That is, that pandemics come and go, people have survived through them, and with each one our understanding of how to slow or stop them increases. The book features illustrations and etchings from the Middle Ages and photographs from pandemics later in history.