McMillen C. W., Pandemics — 2016 (Very short introductions. 492)
Аннотация: The 2014 ebola epidemic demonstrated the power of pandemics and their ability not only to destroy lives locally but also to terrify the world. Combining scientific explanations with deep historical insights, this book describes history's major pandemics - plague, tuberculosis, malaria, smallpox, cholera, influenza, and HIV/AIDS. Christian W. McMillen pays special attention to the rise of public health and medical research in the wake of pandemics, especially as the germ theory of disease emerged in the late nineteenth century. 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 a thought-provoking point of view on the necessity for governments worldwide to proactively cooperate to prevent any future epidemic.
