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Author: John Aberth
ISBN : B004GHNGUY
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Direct download links available Free Download Plagues in World History from with Mediafire Link Download LinkPlagues in World History provides a concise, comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases, including plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, influenza, and AIDS. Geographically, these diseases have spread across the entire globe; temporally, they stretch from the sixth century to the present. John Aberth considers not only the varied impact that disease has had upon human history but also the many ways in which people have been able to influence diseases simply through their cultural attitudes toward them. The author argues that the ability of humans to alter disease, even without the modern wonders of antibiotic drugs and other medical treatments, is an even more crucial lesson to learn now that AIDS, swine flu, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, and other seemingly incurable illnesses have raged worldwide. Aberth's comparative analysis of how different societies have responded in the past to disease illuminates what cultural approaches have been and may continue to be most effective in combating the plagues of today.Direct download links available for Free Download Plagues in World History (Exploring World History) [Kindle Edition]
- File Size: 933 KB
- Print Length: 257 pages
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (January 16, 2011)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B004GHNGUY
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #633,274 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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Plagues in World History is a book that is very concise in the description of different diseases. Aberth brings a real reality to his book with the history, the details of disease, and the way he brings a real understanding to the disease. The details of small pox, aids, cholera, tuberculosis, and the bubonic plague are the diseases that are detailed in this book and anyone who loves the facts and history of disease will truly love this book.
Chapter one we are introduced to the disease called the plague, which comes in three forms, and how to it was spread, along with the symptoms of pneumonic plague, septicemic plague, and the bubonic plague. Later we are introduced the different time periods in which people handled, and thought about, the results of this disease.
Pneumonic plague was the result of bacteria entering the lungs after being breathed in or from airborne transmission. Septicemic plague was the result of a person bleeding from origins of their body and dying within twenty-four hours. Bubonic plague was a bubo on a part of your body caused by the swelling of bacteria in one area then eventually spreading throughout the rest of the body resulting in death.
The first pandemic happened between the years of 542-544 starting in Egypt and spreading through to Palestine. Throughout the time of the first pandemic people were convinced that god was the reason for the plague from the reading in the old testament, of how god punished the Egyptians for disobeying him, that sinning resulted in punishment.
As a reader, I was struck by all the information given in the first couple paragraphs and then the learning experience that you get from this book is incredible. You learn about the facts of the diseases, that fell, and the people who helped.
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