Lectures on the Malarial Fevers
Title | Lectures on the Malarial Fevers PDF eBook |
Author | William Sydney Thayer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 1897 |
Genre | Malaria |
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The Fever
Title | The Fever PDF eBook |
Author | Sonia Shah |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 2010-06-29 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1429981172 |
In recent years, malaria has emerged as a cause célèbre for voguish philanthropists. Bill Gates, Bono, and Laura Bush are only a few of the personalities who have lent their names—and opened their pocketbooks—in hopes of curing the disease. Still, in a time when every emergent disease inspires waves of panic, why aren't we doing more to eradicate one of our oldest foes? And how does a parasitic disease that we've known how to prevent for more than a century still infect 500 million people every year, killing nearly 1 million of them? In The Fever, the journalist Sonia Shah sets out to answer these questions, delivering a timely, inquisitive chronicle of the illness and its influence on human lives. Through the centuries, she finds, we've invested our hopes in a panoply of drugs and technologies, and invariably those hopes have been dashed. From the settling of the New World to the construction of the Panama Canal, through wars and the advances of the Industrial Revolution, Shah tracks malaria's jagged ascent and the tragedies in its wake, revealing a parasite every bit as persistent as the insects that carry it. With distinguished prose and original reporting from Panama, Malawi, Cameroon, India, and elsewhere, The Fever captures the curiously fascinating, devastating history of this long-standing thorn in the side of humanity.
The Fever Trail
Title | The Fever Trail PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Honigsbaum |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2003-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780312421809 |
Literally Italian for "bad air," malaria once plagued Rome, tropical trade routes and colonial ventures into India and South America and the disease has no known antidote aside from the therapeutic effects of the "miraculous" quinine. This first book from journalist Honigsbaum is a rousing history of the search for febrifuge or, more specifically, the rare red cinchona tree, the bark from which quinine is derived.
Cold War, Deadly Fevers
Title | Cold War, Deadly Fevers PDF eBook |
Author | Marcos Cueto |
Publisher | Woodrow Wilson Center Press |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2007-05-04 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 0801886457 |
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Lectures on fevers
Title | Lectures on fevers PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Lebbeus Loomis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 1877 |
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Malarial Subjects
Title | Malarial Subjects PDF eBook |
Author | Rohan Deb Roy |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 349 |
Release | 2017-09-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107172365 |
This book examines how and why British imperial rule shaped scientific knowledge about malaria and its cures in nineteenth-century India. This title is also available as Open Access.
Lectures on Fevers
Title | Lectures on Fevers PDF eBook |
Author | John Robert Kippax |
Publisher | |
Pages | 474 |
Release | 1884 |
Genre | Communicable diseases |
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