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02479aam a2200433 i 4500 001 F1E69DF8351911E68B73C6A5DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20230114020400 008 160105s2016 mdua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016000169 020 $a 1442256508 020 $a 9781442256507 040 $a DNLM/DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d NLM $d YDXCP $d CDX $d UIN $d ILC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 04 $a RA650.5 $b .G44 2016 082 00 $a 614.4/0973 $2 23 100 1 $a Gehlbach, Stephen H., $e author. 245 10 $a American plagues : $b lessons from our battles with disease / $c Stephen H. Gehlbach. 250 $a Updated edition. 264 1 $a Lanham : $b Rowman Littlefield, $c [2016] 300 $a ix, 301 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Gunpowder and calomel : Benjamin Rush and the malignant yellow fever -- Doctors and ministers : smallpox in Boston, 1721 -- Noddle's Island experiment : Benjamin Waterhouse and vaccination -- Scourge of the middle west : autumnal fever and Daniel Drake -- Improving the numbers : Lemuel Shattuck's report -- Adirondack cure : consumption and Edward Trudeau -- The beginning and the end : epidemic poliomyelitis -- A cancer grows : Edward Murrow and the cigarette -- Searching America's heart : the Framingham study -- A cure for complacency : HIV/AIDS -- Too little, too much : healthcare related infections -- Another kind of plague : measles and misinformation. 520 $a Smallpox, yellow fever, malaria, polio... now largely just unhappy history. Yet from our confrontations with these past plagues come lessons. As we struggle to understand and remedy problems like HIV/AIDS, coronary heart disease, and Ebola infection, Gehlbach shows how encounters with epidemics in the past will aid our present understanding of health and disease. 650 0 $a Epidemics $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Communicable diseases $z United States $x History. 650 12 $a Disease Outbreaks $x history. 650 22 $a Communicable Disease Control $x history. 650 22 $a Epidemiology $x history. 651 2 $a United States. 941 $a 5 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20200508022137.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214012737.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20171003035307.0 952 $l PGAX715 $d 20170711142020.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20160618010248.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F1E69DF8351911E68B73C6A5DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search