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Emerging infectious diseases and society

Washer, Peter.

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Emerging infectious diseases and society

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Emerging infectious diseases and society/ Peter Washer.
Author:	Washer, Peter.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2010.,
Description:	xiv, 191 p.
[NT 15003449]:	Factors in the Emergence of Infectious Diseases -- The Conquest of Infectious Disease -- AIDSand the End of the Golden Age of Medicine -- Modernity, Globalization and Emerging Infectious Diseases -- Mad Cows, Modern Plagues and Superbugs -- Dirt, Germs and the Immune System -- The Bioterrorism Myth -- Emerging Infectious Diseases, Security and Global Poverty -- References.
Subject:	Emerging infectious diseases - Popular works. -
Online resource:	http://link.springer.com/10.1057/9780230277182access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	0230277187

Emerging infectious diseases and society
Washer, Peter.

Emerging infectious diseases and society[electronic resource] /Peter Washer. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2010. - xiv, 191 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Factors in the Emergence of Infectious Diseases -- The Conquest of Infectious Disease -- AIDSand the End of the Golden Age of Medicine -- Modernity, Globalization and Emerging Infectious Diseases -- Mad Cows, Modern Plagues and Superbugs -- Dirt, Germs and the Immune System -- The Bioterrorism Myth -- Emerging Infectious Diseases, Security and Global Poverty -- References.

By the 1970s, medicine appeared to have conquered infectious diseases. A century before, newly discovered germ theory had laid the foundations for advances in vaccines and antibiotics, but deaths and illness from infectious diseases had been declining in the developed world even before this 'golden age' of medicine. Infectious diseases were perceivedas archaic, and future health threats seemed to come from so-called diseases of civilization, such as heart disease and cancer. The appearance of AIDS in the early 1980s radically reversed that trend, and since then over thirty new infectious diseases have been classified, includingmad cow disease and antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria, such as MRSA. Furthermore, old threats, such as tuberculosis, have re-emerged as they have become immune to established treatments. This fascinating study charts the rise of new infectious diseases and examines the cultural context and anxieties that surround their emergence, revealing the underlying social and political concerns that determine our response to disease in the 21st century.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 0230277187Subjects--Topical Terms:

1247277
Emerging infectious diseases
--Popular works.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: RA643 / .W27 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 362.196/9

National Library of Medicine Call No.: 2010 G-279

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