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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Shah, Sonia, author.     Subjects     Communicable diseases -- Epidemiology -- History.     Public health surveillance.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Shah, Sonia, author.       by title:      Pandemic : tracking ...         MARC Display

Pandemic : tracking contagions, from cholera to Ebola and beyond / Sonia Shah. by Shah, Sonia, author. New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2016. Subjects Communicable diseases -- Epidemiology -- History.   Public health surveillance. ISBN:  9780374122881 (hardback) : 0374122881 (hardback) Description:  viii, 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Cholera's child : the microbes' comeback -- The jump : crossing the species barrier at wet markets, pig farms, and South Asian wetlands -- Locomotion : the global dissemination of pathogens through canals, steamships, and jet airplanes -- Filth : the rising tide of feculence, from nineteenth-century New York City to the slums of Port-au-Prince and the factory farms of south China -- Crowds : the amplification of epidemics in the global metropolis -- Corruption : private interests versus public health, or, How Aaron Burr and the Manhattan Company poisoned New York City with cholera -- Blame : cholera riots, AIDS denialism, and vaccine resistance -- The cure : the suppression of John Snow and the limits of biomedicine -- The revenge of the sea : the cholera paradigm -- The logic of pandemics : the lost history of ancient pandemics -- Tracking the next contagion : reimagining our place in a microbial world. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origins of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera-- one of history's most disruptive and deadly pathogens-- and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 362.1 Sh Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kalihi-Palama Public Library Adult Nonfiction 362.1 Sh Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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