Ian Glynn, Jenifer Glynn

The Life and Death of Smallpox

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A history of one of the most feared diseases, ending with a conditional human success story - the worldwide eradication of smallpox.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 163mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780521845427
• ISBN-10: 0521845424
• Artikelnr.: 22388353

Inhaltsangabe

1. 'The most terrible of all the ministers of death'
2. From myths to mummies
3. Coming into focus: 0 - 1500 AD
4. Smallpox in the age of discoveries: 1500 AD to 1700 AD
5. News from the east
6. Kicking against the pricks
7. The heyday of inoculation
8. From cuckoos to cowpox
9. The world-wide spread
10. Confusion and compulsion
11. A hundred years on
12. 'Bring hither the fatted calf'
13. Sorting out the viruses
14. Eradication: the beginning of the end
15. 'Annihilation of the smallpox'
16. 'And out of good still to find means of evil'.