Rats, Lice and History

Name: Rats, Lice and History
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ISBN: 9781412806725

ISBN-10: 1412806720

ISBN-13: 9781412806725

Edition: 2008

Authors: Allen Grimshaw, Gerald N. Grob

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The classic chronicle of the impact disease and plagues have had on history and society over the past half-millennium. Intriguingly fascinating and entertaining reading for anyone who is interested in how society copes with catastrophe and pain. Relevant today in face of the worldwide medical calamity of AIDS. Continuously in print since its first publication in 1934, with over 75 printings.

Book details

List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 10/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 332
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



Introduction to the Transaction Edition


Preface



In the nature of an explanation and an apology



Being a discussion of the relationship between science and art



Leading up to the definition of bacteria and other parasites, and digressing briefly into the question of the origin of life



On parasitism in general, and on the necessity of considering the changing nature of infectious diseases in the historical study of epidemics



Being a continuation of Chapter IV, but dealing more particularly with so-called new diseases and with some that have disappeared



Diseases of the ancient world: a consideration of the epidemic diseases which afflicted the ancient world



A continuation of the consideration of diseases of the ancients, with particular attention to epidemics and the fall of Rome



On the influence of epidemic diseases on political and military history, and on the relative unimportance of generals



On the louse: we are now ready to consider the environment which has helped to form the character of our subject



More about the louse: the need for this chapter will be apparent to those who have entered into the spirit of this biography



Much about rats - a little about mice



We are at last arriving at the point at which we can approach the subject of this biography directly



In which we consider the birth, childhood, and adolescence of typhus



In which we follow the earliest epidemic exploits of our disease



Young manhood: the period of early vigor and wild oats



Appraisal of a contemporary and prospects of future education and discipline