Plagues, pandemics and viruses : from the plague of Athens to COVID-19 / Heather E. Quinlan.
| Author/creator | Quinlan, Heather E. author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Canton, MI : Visible Ink Press, [2020] |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Cover -- Half Title -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Photo Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Dedication -- Chapter 1: The Beginning of the End -- A Preface to the Black Death -- Bacteria and Viruses -- Your Immune System -- Vaccines and Antibiotics -- Resistance Is Not Futile -- Chapter 2: Early Medicine -- Paging Dr. Paleo -- Hippocrates and the First Physicians -- Medicine from the Middle East -- The Plague of Athens -- The Plague of Justinian -- Chapter 3: The Black Death -- A Sense of Humor -- Where It Began -- Italy During the Plague -- The Plague in Florence |
| Contents | Florence's Book of the Dead -- Is God Hiding from the Plague? -- Giovanni Boccaccio -- England During the Plague -- The Death of a Princess -- Geoffrey Chaucer -- The Jewish Persecution -- Who Is Death? -- The Flagellants -- The End? -- What We Gained and What We Lost -- Chapter 4: The Plagues of London -- The Healing Hands of Father Morse -- Down with the Papists -- After the Plague -- The Great Plague of London -- The Searchers -- Isolation Is the Mother of Invention -- Blame the Poor -- Hot Off the Presses -- The Great Fire of London -- The Lemon That Saved Paris |
| Contents | Chapter 5: Plagues of Africa and the Tropics -- Yellow Fever -- Ebola -- Zika Virus -- Chapter 6: Smallpox in the New World -- Chapter 7: Sexually Transmitted Infections -- Herpes Simplex 1 and 2 -- Gonorrhea -- Chlamydia -- Syphilis -- HIV/Aids -- Chapter 8: Addiction -- Alcoholism -- The Crack Epidemic -- The Opioid Epidemic -- Chapter 9: Do-or-Die Battles -- Rabies -- Cholera: The Blue Death -- Tuberculosis -- Polio -- Chapter 10: The 1918 Flu -- The 1918 Flu and World War I -- A Flu by Any Other Name -- A New World Order -- The Hidden Enemy -- The Phases of the Flu |
| Contents | What We Lost and What We Gained -- Chapter 11: Coronaviruses -- MERS -- SARS -- Covid-19 -- Chapter 12: Living with Pathogens -- Like It or Not, We Need Viruses -- Good Bacteria -- The Last Word -- Further Reading -- Index |
| Abstract | "From the plague of Athens to the Covid-19 pandemic, Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses covers the history, causes, medical treatments, human responses, and aftermath of the world's biggest pandemics as well as several modern diseases of note and those that are making a comeback"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 10, 2021). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Quinlan, Heather. Plagues, pandemics and viruses 1st [edition]. Canton, MI : Visible Ink Press, [2020] 9781578597048 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020038898 |
| ISBN | 9781578597369 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1578597366 electronic book |
| ISBN | paperback |
| Publisher number | EB00834715 Recorded Books |
| Stock number | B2340F3F-9F9F-4A00-9222-5E9811F57928 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com |