The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris 9781684419876

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Автор: Honigsbaum Mark
Название: The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
ISBN: 9781684419876
Издательство: HighBridge Audio
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1684419875
Обложка/Формат: Compact Disc
Вес: 0.23 кг.
Дата издания: 09.04.2019
Язык: English
Размер: 13.97 x 16.51 x 2.79 cm
Поставляется из: США
Описание: Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From the Spanish flu to the 1924 outbreak of pneumonic plague in Los Angeles to the 1930 parrot fever pandemic, through the more recent SARS, Ebola, and Zika epidemics, the last one hundred years have been marked by a succession of unanticipated pandemic alarms. In The Pandemic Century, a lively account of scares both infamous and less known, Mark Honigsbaum combines reportage with the history of science and medical sociology to artfully reconstruct epidemiological mysteries and the ecology of infectious diseases. We meet dedicated disease detectives, obstructive or incompetent public health officials, and brilliant scientists often blinded by their own knowledge of bacteria and viruses. Like man-eating sharks, predatory pathogens are always present in nature, waiting to strike; when one is seemingly vanquished, others appear in its place. These pandemics remind us of the limits of scientific knowledge, as well as the role that human behavior and technologies play in the emergence and spread of microbial diseases.

The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris, Honigsbaum Mark