Title History of infectious disease pandemics in urban societies / Mark D. Hardt.

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Description	1 online resource (xxiv, 247 pages)
	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	The past: human populations prior to sedentary life styles -- Origins of the urban death penalty: civilized diseases -- The first rural-urban turnaround -- Infectious diseases and medical traditions in the levant -- Emergence of the enlightenment -- Advancement of science and medicine -- Inoculation and infectious disease -- A review of the urban death penalty -- Postlogue.
Summary	This book examines the evolution of urban social patterns and infectious diseases. Tracing the historical record, it explores the human struggle to contain infectious disease and the adaption of microbes to these measures.
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Subject	Epidemics -- History.
	Epidemics.
	History.
	Diseases and history.
	Diseases and history.
	MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
	MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
	MEDICAL -- Public Health.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: History of infectious disease pandemics in urban societies Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016] 9780739180266 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2015035398
ISBN	9780739180273 ebook
	0739180274
	9780739180266 cloth : alkaline paper
	9780739180273 ebook
	0739180266