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The Coming Plague; Laurie Garrett; 1994; Penguin PB Good; Epidemiology
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- Book Title
- The Coming Plague
- Subjects
- Health, Treatments & Medicine
- Original/Facsimile
- Original
- Subject
- Life Sciences / Microbiology, Life Sciences / Virology, Infectious Diseases, General, Epidemiology, Diseases / General
- ISBN
- 9780140250916
- Subject Area
- Health & Fitness, Science, Medical
- Publication Name
- Coming Plague Pt. 1 : Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 1995
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Uk-B Format Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.9 in
- Item Weight
- 29.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 768 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0140250913
ISBN-13
9780140250916
eBay Product ID (ePID)
55550
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
768 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Coming Plague Pt. 1 : Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
Publication Year
1995
Subject
Life Sciences / Microbiology, Life Sciences / Virology, Infectious Diseases, General, Epidemiology, Diseases / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Health & Fitness, Science, Medical
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.9 in
Item Weight
29.3 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"A frightening vision of the future and a deeply unsettling one...a sober, scary book that not only limns the dangers posed by emerging diseases but also raises serious questions about two centuries worth of Enlightenment beliefs in science and technology and progress." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "Like her role model Rachel Carson, whose 1962 Silent Spring woke up society to environmental poisoning, Garrett aims to dispel social and political complacency about the threat of old, new, and yet-unknown microbial catastrophes in a golbal ecology that links Bujumbura, Bangkok, and Boston more closely than anyone appreciates." Richard A. Knox, The Boston Globe "Garrett has done a brilliant job of putting scientific work into layman's language, and the scariness of medical melodramas is offset by the excitement of scientific detection." -- The New Yorker "The book is ambitious, but it succeeds...[its] scope is encyclopedic, its mass of detail startling." -- The Economist "Garrett brilliantly develops her theme that repidly increasing dangers are being ignored. Her investigations have taken over a decade to complete, and her findings are meticulously discussed and distilled." -- Richard Horton, The New York Review of Books "Encyclopedic in detail, missionary in zeal, and disturbing in its message... The Coming Plague makes fascinating if troubling reading. It is an important contribution to our awareness of human ecology and the fragility of the relative biological well-being that many of us enjoy. Garrett has mastered an extraordinary amount of detail about the pathology, epidemiology, and human events surrounding dozens of complex diseases. She writes engagingly, carrying her themes as well as the reader's interest from outbreak to outbreak. -- The Los Angeles Times Book Review "Absorbing...the insights into the personalities and the stories behind new infectious diseases are fascinating. I have the greatest admiration for Laurie Garrett." --Abraham Verghese, M.D., author of In the Heartland: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS "A masterpiece of reporting and writing, The Coming Plague is the best and most thorough book on the terrifying emergence of new plagues. The level of detail is amazing, with fascinating portraits of the so-called 'disease cowboys,' the doctors and scientists who fight infectious diseases on the front lines. The Coming Plague is a must read for anyone interested in the biological fate of the human species." --Richard Preston, New York Times -bestselling author of The Hot Zone
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
20
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
614.4
Grade To
UP
Table Of Content
Preface Introduction 1. Machupo: Bolivian Hemorrhagic Fever 2. Health Transition: The Age of Optimism--Setting Out to Eradicate Disease 3. Monkey Kidneys and the Ebbing Tides: Marburg Virus, Yellow Fever, and the Brazilian Meningitis Epidemic 4. Into the Woods: Lassa Fever 5. Yambuku: Ebola 6. The American Bicentennial: Swine Flu and Legionnaires' Disease 7. N'zara: Lassa, Ebola, and the Developing World's Economic and Social Policies 8. Revolution: Genetic Engineering and the Discovery of Oncogenes 9. Microbe Magnets: Urban Centers of Disease 10. Distant Thunder: Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Injecting Drug Users 11. Hatari: Vinidogodogo (Danger: A Very Little Thing): The Origins of AIDS 12. Feminine Hygiene (As Debated, Mostly, by Men): Toxic Shock Syndrome 13. The Revenge of the Germs, or Just Keep Inventing New Drugs: Drug-resistant Bacteria, Viruses, and Parasites 14. Thirdworldization: The Interactions of Poverty, Poor Housing, and Social Despair with Disease 15. All in Good Haste: Hantaviruses in America 16. Nature and Homo sapiens: Seal Plague, Cholera, Global Warming, Biodiversity, and the Microbial Soup 17. Searching for Solutions: Preparedness, Surveillance, and the New Understanding Afterword Notes Acknowledgments Index
Synopsis
Unpurified drinking water. Improper use of antibiotics. Local warfare. Massive refugee migration. Changing social and environmental conditions around the world have fostered the spread of new and potentially devastating viruses and diseases - HIV, Lassa, Ebola, and others. Laurie Garrett takes you on a fifty-year journey through the world's battles with microbes and examines the worldwide conditions that have culminated in recurrent outbreaks of newly discovered diseases, epidemics of diseases migrating to new areas, and mutated old diseases that are no longer curable. She argues that it is not too late to take action to prevent the further onslaught of viruses and microbes, and offers possible solutions for a healthier future., The definitive account of epidemics in our time, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning public heath expert Laurie Garrett. A New York Times notable book Unpurified drinking water. Improper use of antibiotics. Local warfare. Massive refugee migration. Changing social and environmental conditions around the world have fostered the spread of new and potentially devastating viruses and diseases--HIV, Lassa, Ebola, and others. Laurie Garrett takes you on a fifty-year journey through the world's battles with microbes and examines the worldwide conditions that have culminated in recurrent outbreaks of newly discovered diseases, epidemics of diseases migrating to new areas, and mutated old diseases that are no longer curable. She argues that it is not too late to take action to prevent the further onslaught of viruses and microbes, and offers possible solutions for a healthier future., Unpurified drinking water. Improper use of antibiotics. Local warfare. Massive refugee migration. Changing social and environmental conditions around the world have fostered the spread of new and potentially devastating viruses and diseases HIV, Lassa, Ebola, and others. Laurie Garrett takes you on a fifty-year journey through the world's battles with microbes and examines the worldwide conditions that have culminated in recurrent outbreaks of newly discovered diseases, epidemics of diseases migrating to new areas, and mutated old diseases that are no longer curable. She argues that it is not too late to take action to prevent the further onslaught of viruses and microbes, and offers possible solutions for a healthier future."
LC Classification Number
RA651
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