Yellow fever, black goddess : (Record no. 9997)
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fixed length control field | 02805cam a2200325 a 4500 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
ISBN | 0201442353 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
ISBN | 9780201442359 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
ISBN | 0201328186 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
ISBN | 9780201328189 |
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
Original cataloging agency | DLC |
Language of cataloging | eng |
Transcribing agency | DLC |
Modifying agency | BAKER |
-- | NLGGC |
-- | YDXCP |
-- | BTCTA |
-- | UAB |
-- | CHRRO |
-- | BDX |
-- | OCLCO |
-- | ZWZ |
-- | OCLCF |
-- | OCLCQ |
-- | OCLCO |
-- | EUW |
-- | OCLCO |
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. |
650 #2 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical Term | Disease Outbreaks |
General subdivision | history. |
650 #2 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
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. |
650 #2 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
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. |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
Koha item type | Books |
Withdrawn status | Lost status | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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DIS Library | DIS Library | Non-Fiction 3F | 03/03/2016 | 614.49 Wills | MH007123 | Books |