American Plagues: Lessons from Our Battles with Disease

by Stephen H. Gehlbach and Stephen H. Gehlbach MD MPH

Book Overview

Smallpox, yellow fever, malaria, and polio, fearful diseases that once beset Americans, are now largely, just unhappy history. Yet from our confrontations with these past plagues come lessons that inform today's struggles to understand and remedy problems like HIV/AIDS, coronary heart disease, and Ebola infection. American Plagues weaves stories of encounters with epidemics over our history with lessons that aid our present understanding of health...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442256508
• ISBN13: 9781442256507
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.1"