Infectious Diseases category: 1139 books
by K. Salfelder
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Early diagnosis of parasitic diseases, especially of the opportunistic infections, is gaining importance daily and pathologists now have the chance to make rapid diagnoses of these disorders by examining tissues and body fluids. Though parasitic infections and infestations occur mainly in subtropical...
by Yang Kuang, John D. Nagy, Steffen E. Eikenberry
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Introduction to Mathematical Oncology presents biologically well-motivated and mathematically tractable models that facilitate both a deep understanding of cancer biology and better cancer treatment designs. It covers the medical and biological background of the diseases, modeling issues, and existing...
by Lawrence R. Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The most important example of intravascular infection is infective endocarditis (IE), a common and serious disorder in man. In the past, these infections were uniformly fatal, but since the development of potent antimicrobial agents, bac teriological cure has become practical and predictable. So,...
Cure Unknown
Inside the Lyme Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
The groundbreaking, award-winning investigation into Lyme disease—the science, history, medical politics, and patient experience—now with a brand new chapter.
When Pamela Weintraub, a science journalist, learned that her oldest son tested positive for Lyme disease, she thought she had found...
Assessing AIDS Prevention
Selected papers presented at the international conference held in Montreux (Switzerland), October 29–November 1, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In most countries, primary prevention programmes against the HIV / AIDS epidemic have been implemented. Broadly speaking, three levels of intervention can be identified: - national campaigns directed to the general population; most of them are multi phase campaigns aimed at providing information about...
by Kara Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
As the world’s population expands, so too does the risk of communicable disease and global pandemics. Consequently, healthcare has assumed a greater centrality in the public consciousness both in the United States and around the world. With various national and international organizations dedicated...
Superbug
The Fatal Menace of MRSA
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
LURKING in our homes, hospitals, schools, and farms is a terrifying pathogen that is evolving faster than the medical community can track it or drug developers can create antibiotics to quell it. That pathogen is MRSA—methicillin-resistant Staphyloccocus aureus—and Superbug is the first book to...
by J. F. C. Hecker
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
A 19th Century analysis of two of the 14th Century's most devastating pandemics: The Black Death, which is usually thought to be a form of bubonic plague, and the Dancing Mania, an unexplained epidemic that caused thousands of people to literally dance themselves to death.
The Blink of an Eye
A Memoir of Dying—and Learning How to Live Again
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
“A highly personal, deeply affecting account of what it is to be yanked from a happy, well-ordered life and thrust into a sudden, unimaginable, terrifying darkness. Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard has done the impossible of putting into words an experience that would seem to be beyond expressing.”—from...
by Richard Melzer
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Tuberculosis, also known as consumption, the White Plague, or simply TB, was the number-one killer in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many physicians of the era advised their patients to chase the cure for tuberculosis in the Southwest, where the region�s clean, dry, fresh...
The Cholera Years
The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2009
Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the fourteenth. Its defeat was a reflection not only of progress in medical knowledge but of enduring changes in American social thought. Rosenberg has focused his study on New York City, the most highly...
Colonial Pathologies
American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Colonial Pathologies is a groundbreaking history of the role of science and medicine in the American colonization of the Philippines from 1898 through the 1930s. Warwick Anderson describes how American colonizers sought to maintain their own health and stamina in a foreign environment while exerting...
Silent Victories
The History and Practice of Public Health in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2006
Americans' health improved dramatically over the twentieth century. Public health programs for disease and injury prevention were responsible for much of this advance. Over the century, America's public health system grew dramatically, employing science and political authority in response to an increasing...
That Polio Season
Lt-Gov David Onley and the epidemic of 1953
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Sixty years ago this summer, the most severe polio epidemic on record claimed more than 8,000 victims across the country. About a quarter of those stricken with so-called infantile paralysis were in Ontario. Three-year-old Davie Onley, who would grow up to be the province's lieutenant-governor, was one....