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IIITD |
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20220528132035.0 |
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160617s2016 nyuab b 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2016028234 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780199340071 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
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rda |
| Modifying agency |
DLC |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
pcc |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
RA649 |
| Item number |
.M373 2016 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
614.4 |
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MCM-P |
| 084 ## - OTHER CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
MED039000 |
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bisacsh |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
McMillen, Christian W. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Pandemics : |
| Remainder of title |
a very short introduction |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
by Christian W. McMillen. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Oxford University Press, |
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©2016 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xvii, 153 p. : |
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ill. ; |
| Dimensions |
18 cm. |
| 490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Very short introductions ; |
| Volume number/sequential designation |
492 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"The 2014 Ebola epidemic demonstrated the power of pandemics and their ability not only to destroy lives locally but also to capture the imagination and terrify the world. Christian W. McMillen provides a concise yet comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, illustrating how pandemic disease has shaped history and, at the same time, social behavior has influenced pandemic disease. Extremely interesting from a medical standpoint, the study of pandemics also provides unexpected, broader insights into culture and politics. This Very Short Introduction describes history's major pandemics - plague, tuberculosis, malaria, smallpox, cholera, influenza, and HIV/AIDS - highlighting how each disease's biological characteristics affected its pandemic development. McMillen discusses state responses to pandemics, such as quarantine, isolation, travel restrictions, and other forms of social control, and pays special attention to the rise of public health and the explosion of medical research in the wake of pandemics, especially as the germ theory of disease emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Today, medicine is able to control all of these diseases, yet some of them are still devastating in much of the developing world. By assessing the relationship between poverty and disease and the geography of epidemics, McMillen offers an outspoken and thought-provoking point of view on the necessity for global governments to learn from past experiences and proactively cooperate to prevent any future epidemic"-- |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"The book provides a concise yet comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, including plague, tubercolosis, smallpox, malaria, cholera, and HIV. He illustrates the ways in which pandemic disease has shaped history and how human history has shaped pandemic disease. Pandemics are both interesting from a medical standpoint and provide insight into the culture and politics of their time"-- |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Epidemics |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
MEDICAL / History. |
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Dewey Decimal Classification |
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Books |
