Pandemic : tracking contagions, from cholera to ebola and beyond / Sonia Shah.
2016
362.1 S525p 2016
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Title
Pandemic : tracking contagions, from cholera to ebola and beyond / Sonia Shah.
Author
ISBN
9780374122881 (hardback)
0374122881 (hardback)
9780374708740 (e-book)
0374122881 (hardback)
9780374708740 (e-book)
Published
New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2016.
Language
English
Description
viii, 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Call Number
362.1 S525p 2016
System Control No.
(OCoLC)907585936
(OCoLC)907585936
(OCoLC)907585936
Summary
"From the author of The Fever, a wide-ranging inquiry into the origins of pandemics 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, from Ebola and avian influenza to drug-resistant superbugs. More than three hundred infectious diseases have emerged or reemerged in new territory during the past fifty years, and 90 percent of epidemiologists expect that one of them will cause a disruptive, deadly pandemic sometime in the next two generations. To reveal how that might happen, Sonia Shah tracks each stage of cholera's dramatic journey from harmless microbe to world-changing pandemic, from its 1817 emergence in the South Asian hinterlands to its rapid dispersal across the nineteenth-century world and its latest beachhead in Haiti. She reports on the pathogens following in cholera's footsteps, from the MRSA bacterium that besieges her own family to the never-before-seen killers emerging from China's wet markets, the surgical wards of New Delhi, the slums of Port-au-Prince, and the suburban backyards of the East Coast. By delving into the convoluted science, strange politics, and checkered history of one of the world's deadliest diseases, Pandemic reveals what the next epidemic might look like-and what we can do to prevent it"-- Provided by publisher.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-253) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
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