Epidemics

Name: Epidemics
Brand: Ohio University Press
SKU: 9780821420287
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The Story of South Africa's Five Most Lethal Human Diseases

Autor: Howard Phillips

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Väzba: Brožovaná

Vydavateľ: Ohio University Press

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This is the first history of epidemics in South Africa, lethal episodes that significantly shaped th...

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Autor

Howard Phillips

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydalo

2012

Stránok

168

EAN

9780821420287

ISBN

0821420283

Enbook ID

04935723

Vydavateľ

Ohio University Press

Hmotnosť

132

Rozmery

179 x 110 x 11

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This is the first history of epidemics in South Africa, lethal episodes that significantly shaped this society over three centuries. Focusing on five devastating diseases between 1713 and today - smallpox, bubonic plague, "Spanish influenza," polio, and HIV/AIDS - the book probes their origins, their catastrophic courses, and their consequences in both the short and long terms. The impacts of these epidemics ranged from the demographic - the "Spanish flu," for instance, claimed the lives of six percent of the country's population in six weeks - to the political, the social, the economic, the spiritual, the psychological, and the cultural. Moreover, as each of these epidemics occurred at crucial moments in the country's history - such as during the South African War and World War I - the book also examines how these processes affected and were affected by the five epidemics. To those who read this book, history will not look the same again.

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