Pandemics : (Record no. 36066)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2016028234
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780199340071 (paperback : acidfree paper)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
Cancelled/invalid ISBN 9780199340088 (ebook epdf)
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Cancelled/invalid ISBN 9780199340095 (ebook epub)
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Cancelled/invalid ISBN 9780190625214 (online resource)
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Original cataloging agency DLC
Language of cataloging eng
Transcribing agency DLC
Description conventions rda
Modifying agency DLC
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Authentication code pcc
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number RA649
Item number .M373 2016
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 614.4
Edition number 23
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Classification number MED039000
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100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name McMillen, Christian W.,
Dates associated with a name 1969-
Relator term author.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Pandemics :
Remainder of title a very short introduction /
Statement of responsibility, etc Christian W. McMillen.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 153 pages :
Other physical details illustrations, map ;
Dimensions 18 cm.
490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Very short introductions
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "The 2014 Ebola epidemic demonstrated the power of pandemics and their ability not only to destroy lives locally but also to capture the imagination and terrify the world. Christian W. McMillen provides a concise yet comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, illustrating how pandemic disease has shaped history and, at the same time, social behavior has influenced pandemic disease. Extremely interesting from a medical standpoint, the study of pandemics also provides unexpected, broader insights into culture and politics. This Very Short Introduction describes history's major pandemics - plague, tuberculosis, malaria, smallpox, cholera, influenza, and HIV/AIDS - highlighting how each disease's biological characteristics affected its pandemic development. McMillen discusses state responses to pandemics, such as quarantine, isolation, travel restrictions, and other forms of social control, and pays special attention to the rise of public health and the explosion of medical research in the wake of pandemics, especially as the germ theory of disease emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Today, medicine is able to control all of these diseases, yet some of them are still devastating in much of the developing world. By assessing the relationship between poverty and disease and the geography of epidemics, McMillen offers an outspoken and thought-provoking point of view on the necessity for global governments to learn from past experiences and proactively cooperate to prevent any future epidemic"--
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "The book provides a concise yet comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, including plague, tubercolosis, smallpox, malaria, cholera, and HIV. He illustrates the ways in which pandemic disease has shaped history and how human history has shaped pandemic disease. Pandemics are both interesting from a medical standpoint and provide insight into the culture and politics of their time"--
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Epidemics
General subdivision History.
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element MEDICAL / History.
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type E-Book
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Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Materials specified (bound volume or other part) Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Total Checkouts Full call number Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type
    Dewey Decimal Classification a very short introduction /     Reformational Study Centre Reformational Study Centre General library 09/25/2018   614.4 09/25/2018 09/25/2018 E-Book