Epidemics and Plagues

ISBN: 9780753460351

出版社: Houghton Mifflin

出版年: 2006-11

页数: 64

定价: $ 14.63

装帧: HRD

内容简介

Plagues have been an ongoing feature of human history, and this addition to the award-winning KFK series places today's heightened interest in global health issues in a larger historical context. Using a mix of science and history, Epidemics and Plagues reveals how certain diseases become worldwide killers, and provides comprehensive answers to readers' most pressing questions. From the Black Death of thirteenth-century Europe, to AIDS, SARS, and avian influenza, Epidemics and Plagues peers through the microscope at the agents that cause the diseases and also uncovers the superstitions and drama surrounding them.