A Field Guide to Germs

Biddle, Wayne

ISBN 10: 0385484267 / ISBN 13: 9780385484268

Verlag: Anchor, 1996

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Inhaltsangabe:

In an informative and witty study, a Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer discusses nearly one hundred notorious pathogens, describing their physical characteristics, the afflictions they cause, and their impact on folklore, philosophy, and history. Reprint.

Aus dem Klappentext: ages of the Ebola virus in Zaire to outbreaks of pneumonic plague in India and drug-resistant TB in New York City, contagious diseases are fighting back against once-unconquerable modern medicine. Public concern about infectious disease is on the rise as newspapers trumpet the arrivals of new germs and the reemergence of old ones.

In A Field Guide to Germs, Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Wayne Biddle brings readers face to face with nearly one hundred of the best-known (in terms of prevalence, power, historical importance, or even literary interest) of the myriad pathogens that live in and around the human population. Along with physical descriptions of the organisms and the afflictions they cause, the author provides folklore, philosophy, history, and such illustrations as nineteenth century drawings of plague-induced panic, microscopic photographs of HIV and Ebola, and wartime posters warning servicemen against syphilis and gonorrhea.

From cholera to chl

Bibliografische Details

Titel: A Field Guide to Germs
Verlag: Anchor
Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Very Good