Yellow fever, black goddess : (Record no. 9997)

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ISBN 0201442353
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ISBN 9780201442359
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ISBN 0201328186
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ISBN 9780201328189
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Original cataloging agency DLC
Language of cataloging eng
Transcribing agency DLC
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082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 614.4/9
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Wills, Christopher.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Yellow fever, black goddess :
Remainder of title the coevolution of people and plagues /
Statement of responsibility, etc Christopher Wills.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication Reading, MA :
Name of publisher Addison-Wesley Pub.,
Year of publication 1996.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xii, 324 pages :
Other physical details illustrations ;
490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Helix books.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note "First published in the United Kingdom by HarperCollins Publishers under the title: Plagues : their origins, history, and future"--Title page verso.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note pt. 1. The Anatomy of Plagues. 1. The delicate balance between life and death. 2. The penumbra of disease. 3. The worst of times -- pt. 2. Chief monster that has plagued the nations yet ... 4. Four tales from the New Decameron. 5. Was the Indian plagued actually plague, and if not why not? -- pt. 3. Naive and Cunning Diseases. 6. Cholera, the Black One. 7. A cleverer pathogen -- pt. 4. The Challenge of the Temperate Zones. 8. An ague very violent. 9. Syphilis and the Faustian bargain -- pt. 5. Plagues, Populations and the Biosphere. 10. AIDS and the future of plagues. 11. Safety in diversity. 12. Why so many diseases?
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Yellow Fever, Black Goddess turns the tables on past accounts, focusing not on the microbe hunters but on the microbes themselves, putting these exotic life-forms at center stage, telling their story as they fight to live at the very edge of the possible. Humans acknowledge the existence of our planet's primitive coinhabitants only when they do their worst - emerging to strike down whole populations through rampaging epidemics. But in fact, the protozoa, bacteria, and viruses that cause such diseases as yellow fever and cholera - which is symbolized by the black goddess - lead complex lives in their own right, struggling ever further out on their evolutionary limbs.
520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc In order to deal with these microbes we must understand the entire evolutionary environment in which they function - from tropical breeding grounds to the resistant temperate zones, from insect viruses to human plagues - and through this alone can we hope to control them. By giving these organisms their due in this remarkable account, Christopher Wills points the way toward gaining that mastery.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Epidemics
General subdivision History.
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Topical Term Disease Outbreaks
General subdivision history.
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Topical Term Microbiology
General subdivision history.
650 #2 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Disease Outbreaks.
650 #2 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Plague.
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Topical Term Cholera.
650 #2 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Syphilis.
650 #2 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
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Koha item type Books
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