كتاب
What disease was plague?: on the controversy over the microbiological identity of plague epidemics of the past
| العنوان: | What disease was plague?: on the controversy over the microbiological identity of plague epidemics of the past |
|---|---|
| المؤلفون: | Benedictow, Ole Jørgen. |
| بيانات النشر: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010. |
| سنة النشر: | 2010 |
| وصف مادي: | xvi, 746 p. : col. map ; 25 cm. |
| سلاسل: | Brill's series in the history of the environment Brill's series in the history of the environment |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Plague -- Microbiology., Plague -- Epidemiology., Plague -- History., Communicable diseases -- History., Plague -- microbiology., Plague -- epidemiology., Plague -- history. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | 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 -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Black Death mortality in Siena : the material provided by the necrology of the Monastery of San Domenico in Camporegio and summarized in table 5 -- Appendix 2. The accounts of the Icelandic epidemics of 1402-4 and 1494-5 given in Icelandic annals --Appendix 3. The extrinsic incubation period and the structure and composition of the latency period. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn649795889 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-90-04-18002-4 90-04-18002-8 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [693]-715) and indexes. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.012608671.0 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
Full Text Finder | ردمك: | 9789004180024 9004180028 |
|---|