An Epidemiological Odyssey The Evolution of Communicable Disease Control /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pollock, George (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Infectious diseases.; Epidemiology.; Medicine > History.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; History of Medicine.; Infectious Diseases.; Medicine/Public Health, general.

This book attempts to set communicable diseases and the efforts to control them in a social and historical context. The primary focus is on England with its particular history, culture and traditions. The timescale covered is extensive and ambitious, and the many strands that came together in the ni...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements
• 1 Early Concepts of Communicability
• 2 Infection on the Move
• 3 The Impact of Cholera
• 4 Stiffening the Sinews
• 5 Dawn and Sunset
• 6 A Need for Damage Limitation
• 7 No Lasting Stability
• 8 Tailpiece. List of References. Index.