Encyclopedia of pestilence, pandemics, and plagues
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Joseph Patrick Byrne
- ناشر : Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2008
- شابک / ISBN : 9780313341014
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Note: page numbers in bold font refer to main articles about the specified topic. Abraha (Prince), 759 Account . . . of Inoculating the Small-Pox, An (Mather), 403 Account of the Bilious Remitting Yellow Fever, as It Appeared in the City of Philadelphia, in the Year 1793, An (Rush), 605 acetylsalicylic acid, 473 Ackerknecht, Erwin, 423 Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. See Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) ACT UP. See AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, 127 Adams, John, 652 Adonais (Shelly), 706 Aedes aegypti dengue, 700 discovery of, 590 yellow fever, 130, 234 Aedes aegypti mosquito dengue, transmission, 321, 700 ideal habitat, damp climate, 795 Index yellow fever, as vector of, 590, 745, 781, 785 Aedes albopictus, 697. See also Asian tiger mosquito Africa Malaria Report 2003, The (WHO), 388 African AIDS Epidemic, The (Iliffe), 3 African germ theory, 403 “The Age of Degenerative and Human-Made Diseases,” 263 Agramonte, Aristides, 321 AIDS. See Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome AIDS, literature, and the arts in the United States, 13–17 arts of stage and screen, 15–16 as “epidemic of signification,” 13 literature, 14–15 social stigma and, 14 visual arts, 16–17 AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), 15 “AIDS guidelines,” 2 AIDS in Africa, 1–6 causes and consequences, 4 efforts to combat the HIV/AIDS, international organizations, 5
From the Athenian flu pandemic and the Black Death to AIDS, this set offers a sociocultural, historical, and medical look at infectious diseases and their place in human history from Neolithic times onwards. Read less
