ISBN032398925X (paperback)
9780323989251 (paperback)
数量xvi, 383 pages : ; 23 cm.
寄与者Ian R. Tizard, Jeffrey M.B. Musser.
一般注記Introduction: How infectious diseases have shaped American History -- 1. Infectious diseases and their causes -- 2. Immunity and recovery from infectious diseases -- 3. Diseases among the first inhabitants -- 4. Tuberculosis - another ancient disease -- 5. Syphilis and the Columbian exchange -- 6. Malaria and the ague - 1492 -- 7. Smallpox - 1519: the first vaccines -- 8. Measles - 1531: almost gone! -- 9. Typhoid and typhus - 1607: smelly differences -- 10. Yellow fever - 1647: mosquito-borne invader -- 11. Cholera - 1832: a worldwide pandemic -- 12. Poliomyelitis - 1841: the triumph of vaccination -- 13. Infectious diseases and the Civil War -- 14. Plague and San Francisco - 1900 -- 15. Influenza - 1918: a wartime pandemic -- 16. A completely new disease: AIDS-1981 -- 17. Panic and neglect - 2000-2018 -- 18. COVID-19: not just another respiratory virus - 2020.