John Rhodes

The End of Plagues

The Global Battle Against Infectious Disease

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An absorbing history of the battle against the world's deadliest diseases and how today's scientists are racing against the clock to eradicate these viruses once and for all

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 432g
• ISBN-13: 9781137278524
• ISBN-10: 1137278528
• Artikelnr.: 37752086

Autorenporträt

John Rhodes was born during World War II while his father was serving at an RAF Fighter Command airfield. After the war he grew up in London, where, he says, the remnants of bombed-out buildings "served as our adventure playgrounds." A Cambridge University history graduate, he is the author of Infinite Stakes, the sequel to the award-winning Breaking Point.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Hardly Anyone Escapes
Chapter 2: The Power of the Invisible
Chapter 3: Circassian Beauties and Pioneering Women
Chapter 4: The Making of Jenner
Chapter 5: Why Not Try the Experiment?
Chapter 6: The Fourth Achievement
Chapter 7: The Foundling Voyages
Chapter 8: The Teeming Humanity of Nations
Chapter 9: A Great and Loud Commotion
Chapter 10: Completing the Picture
Chapter 11: Germ Theory and the Birth of Immunology
Chapter 12: Victorious Weapons against Illness and Death
Chapter 13: First Light on the Mystery of Infantile Paralysis
Chapter 14: Yearning to Breathe Free
Chapter 15: A Great Step Forward
Chapter 16: Great Themes and Dirty Little Secrets
Chapter 17: The War on Influenza
Chapter 18: Forged in the Crucible of War
Chapter 19: Smallpox in a Land of Ancient Wisdom
Chapter 20: The Final Defeat of Smallpox
Chapter 21: Invisible Weapons of War
Chapter 22: Benefits, Risks and Fears
Chapter 23: Inspiration in the Global Village
Chapter 24: A Team of Many Colors
Chapter 25: The Milkmaid and the Cuckoo