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Author Smallman-Raynor, Matthew.

Title War epidemics : an historical geography of infectious diseases in military conflict and civil strife, 1850-2000 / M.R. Smallman-Raynor and A.D. Cliff.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiv, 805 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Oxford geographical and environmental studies
Oxford geographical and environmental studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents List of Figures and Plates; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Prologue; PART I: War and Disease; PART II: Temporal Trends; PART III: A Regional Pattern of War Epidemics; PART IV: Prospects; Epilogue; References; Index.
Summary Written from the viewpoints of historical geography, epidemiology, and spatial analysis, this book examines in four parts the historical occurrence and geographical spread of infectious diseases in association with wars. Part I: War and Disease, surveys war-disease associations from early times to 1850. Part II: Temporal Trends studies time trends since 1850. Part III: A Regional Pattern of War Epidemics, examines grand themes in the war-disease complex. Part IV: Prospects, considers a series of war-related issues of epidemiological significance in the twenty-first century. - ;Down the ages, w.
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Subject Communicable diseases -- Transmission -- History.
Communicable diseases -- Transmission.
History.
War -- Medical aspects -- History.
War -- Medical aspects.
Communicable Diseases -- epidemiology.
Disease Outbreaks -- history.
Armed Conflicts.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Cliff, A. D. (Andrew David)
Other Form: Print version: Smallman-Raynor, Matthew. War epidemics. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004 9780198233640 0198233647 (DLC) 2004303138 (OCoLC)53871071
ISBN 9780191513459 (electronic book)
0191513458 (electronic book)
1280965010
9781280965012
0198233647 (Cloth)