What disease was plague? On the controversy over the microbiological identity of plague epidemics of the past
The issue and the problems -- The ethics of scholarly work -- Rats -- The spread of bubonic plague over distances -- Mortality in india -- Was historical plague a viral or bacterial disease? : the question of immunity -- Defining feature 1 : latency periods -- Defining feature 2 : inverse correlatio...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Leiden u.a.
Brill
2010
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| Schriftenreihe: | Brill's Series in the history of the environment
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The issue and the problems -- The ethics of scholarly work -- Rats -- The spread of bubonic plague over distances -- Mortality in india -- Was historical plague a viral or bacterial disease? : the question of immunity -- Defining feature 1 : latency periods -- Defining feature 2 : inverse correlation between mortality rate and population density -- Defining feature 3 : buboes as a normal clinical feature in epidemics -- Defining feature 4 : DNA of yersinia pestis from plague graves -- Defining feature 5 : seasonality of bubonic plague -- The beginning : the alternative theories of Shrewsbury and Morris -- Gunnar Karlsson's alternative theory : that historical plague was pure epidemics of primary pneumonic plague -- Twigg's alternative theory -- The alternative theory of Scott and Duncan -- Cohn's alternative theory. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XVI, 746 S. Kt. 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9789004180024 978-90-04-18002-4 |