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Lädt ... Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases (2021)von Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. 4.25 ( ) Interesting and well-written science book. I did find it to be overly long, some of the diseases discussed could have been cut in order to keep it lean and zesty. I also have to say that in the chapter about typhoid, I thought it was irresponsible of the author to declare that Mary Mallon (aka Typhoid Mary) had a mental illness when there is no indication that she was ever diagnosed with one - a fact that the author freely admits immediately after asserting the mental illness claim! Just because someone has a disagreeable personality, and sometimes doesn't conform to social norms, doesn't mean they have a mental illness. The willingness of the author to label people as mentally ill, having never met them and coming from an entirely different cultural period, is deeply troubling. this is super interesting and well done. there is scientific information about each disease, where and how it struck, and how it was brought under control. there is also an intimate story of a person, almost always patient zero, the first person to contract the disease and bring it to others where it spread to their communities. the authors weave the two together well and manage to keep this both lively and rigorous. i really enjoyed the scientific explanation for (most of) the biblical plagues. and as much as i have been impacted and love and the band played on, i also liked that she took randy shilts to task on some of what he said in that book, especially about the man he claimed was patient zero. (turns out that hiv was around for more than 100 years before the explosion in the 80s!) Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
"From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks-how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us. Written in the authors' lively and accessible style, chapters include page-turning medical stories about a particular disease or virus-smallpox, Bubonic plague, polio, HIV-that combine "Patient Zero" narratives, or the human stories behind outbreaks, with historical examinations of missteps, milestones, scientific theories, and more. Learn the tragic stories of Patient Zeros throughout history, such as Mabalo Lokela, who contracted Ebola while on vacation in 1976, and the Lewis Baby on London's Broad Street, the first to catch cholera in an 1854 outbreak that led to a major medical breakthrough. Interspersed are origin stories of a different sort-how a rye fungus in 1951 turned a small village in France into a phantasmagoric scene reminiscent of Burning Man. Plus the uneasy history of human autopsy, how the HIV virus has been with us for at least a century, and more"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)614.49Technology Medicine and health Public Health Contagious and infectious diseases Epidemics; PlaguesKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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