Fatal Partners War And Disease
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Fatal Partners
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Author : Ralph H. Major
language : en
Publisher: Scholars Book Shelf
Release Date : 2006-01-01
Fatal Partners written by Ralph H. Major and has been published by Scholars Book Shelf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with History categories.
2006 Scholar's Bookshelf reprint edition of this pioneering work, first published in 1941, and tracing the decisive role of plagues, disease, and pestilence in armies from the era of the Greeks and Romans to the twentieth century. Among the diseases identified by the author are bubonic plague, typhoid fever, scurvy, hospital gangrene, malaria, yellow fever, and many others, and the book also traces advances in medicine brought on by the challenges of war when armies could be ""a vast laboratory of medical research."" Among specific historical events ciited are the role of nurses such as Florence Nightingale, the battle of Solferino and its aftermath, and modern warfare.
Fatal Partners War And Disease
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Author : Ralph Hermon Major
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1941
Fatal Partners War And Disease written by Ralph Hermon Major and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with Communicable diseases categories.
Epidemics In Modern Asia
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Author : Robert Peckham
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-04-28
Epidemics In Modern Asia written by Robert Peckham and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-28 with History categories.
The first history of epidemics in modern Asia. Robert Peckham considers the varieties of responses that epidemics have elicited - from India to China and the Russian Far East - and examines the processes that have helped to produce and diffuse disease across the region.
Internal Medicine In World War Ii Infectious Diseases
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Author : United States. Army Medical Service
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
Internal Medicine In World War Ii Infectious Diseases written by United States. Army Medical Service and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with Internal medicine categories.
Fever Of War
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Author : Carol R Byerly
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2005-04-05
Fever Of War written by Carol R Byerly and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-05 with History categories.
The influenza epidemic of 1918 killed more people in one year than the Great War killed in four, sickening at least one quarter of the world's population. In Fever of War, Carol R. Byerly uncovers the startling impact of the 1918 influenza epidemic on the American army, its medical officers, and their profession, a story which has long been silenced. Through medical officers' memoirs and diaries, official reports, scientific articles, and other original sources, Byerly tells a grave tale about the limits of modern medicine and warfare. The tragedy begins with overly confident medical officers who, armed with new knowledge and technologies of modern medicine, had an inflated sense of their ability to control disease. The conditions of trench warfare on the Western Front soon outflanked medical knowledge by creating an environment where the influenza virus could mutate to a lethal strain. This new flu virus soon left medical officers’ confidence in tatters as thousands of soldiers and trainees died under their care. They also were unable to convince the War Department to reduce the crowding of troops aboard ships and in barracks which were providing ideal environments for the epidemic to thrive. After the war, and given their helplessness to control influenza, many medical officers and military leaders began to downplay the epidemic as a significant event for the U. S. army, in effect erasing this dramatic story from the American historical memory.
The Mosquito
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Author : Timothy C. Winegard
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2019-08-06
The Mosquito written by Timothy C. Winegard and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-06 with History categories.
**The instant New York Times bestseller.** *An international bestseller.* Finalist for the Lane Anderson Award Finalist for the RBC Taylor Award “Hugely impressive, a major work.”—NPR A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity’s fate Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to thank for its global domination? What has protected the lives of popes for millennia? Why did Scotland surrender its sovereignty to England? What was George Washington's secret weapon during the American Revolution? The answer to all these questions, and many more, is the mosquito. Across our planet since the dawn of humankind, this nefarious pest, roughly the size and weight of a grape seed, has been at the frontlines of history as the grim reaper, the harvester of human populations, and the ultimate agent of historical change. As the mosquito transformed the landscapes of civilization, humans were unwittingly required to respond to its piercing impact and universal projection of power. The mosquito has determined the fates of empires and nations, razed and crippled economies, and decided the outcome of pivotal wars, killing nearly half of humanity along the way. She (only females bite) has dispatched an estimated 52 billion people from a total of 108 billion throughout our relatively brief existence. As the greatest purveyor of extermination we have ever known, she has played a greater role in shaping our human story than any other living thing with which we share our global village. Imagine for a moment a world without deadly mosquitoes, or any mosquitoes, for that matter? Our history and the world we know, or think we know, would be completely unrecognizable. Driven by surprising insights and fast-paced storytelling, The Mosquito is the extraordinary untold story of the mosquito’s reign through human history and her indelible impact on our modern world order.
Medical Department Army Internal Medicine In World War Ii V 2 Infectious Diseases
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Author : United States. Army Medical Service
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
Medical Department Army Internal Medicine In World War Ii V 2 Infectious Diseases written by United States. Army Medical Service and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with categories.
Contagion And Chaos
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Author : Andrew T. Price-Smith
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2008-12-05
Contagion And Chaos written by Andrew T. Price-Smith and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-05 with Political Science categories.
An analysis of infectious disease as a threat to national security that examines the destabilizing effects of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, SARS, and Mad Cow Disease. Historians from Thucydides to William McNeill have pointed to the connections between disease and civil society. Political scientists have investigated the relationship of public health to governance, introducing the concept of health security. In Contagion and Chaos, Andrew Price-Smith offers the most comprehensive examination yet of disease through the lens of national security. Extending the analysis presented in his earlier book The Health of Nations, Price-Smith argues that epidemic disease represents a direct threat to the power of a state, eroding prosperity and destabilizing both its internal politics and its relationships with other states. He contends that the danger of an infectious pathogen to national security depends on lethality, transmissability, fear, and economic damage. Moreover, warfare and ecological change contribute to the spread of disease and act as “disease amplifiers.” Price-Smith presents a series of case studies to illustrate his argument: the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-19 (about which he advances the controversial claim that the epidemic contributed to the defeat of Germany and Austria); HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa (he contrasts the worst-case scenario of Zimbabwe with the more stable Botswana); bovine spongiform encephalopathy (also known as mad cow disease); and the SARS contagion of 2002-03. Emerging infectious disease continues to present a threat to national and international security, Price-Smith argues, and globalization and ecological change only accelerate the danger.
The Medical Department Of The United States Army In World War Ii
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Author : United States. Army Medical Service
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
The Medical Department Of The United States Army In World War Ii written by United States. Army Medical Service and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with categories.
Rome At War
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Author : Nathan Rosenstein
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2005-12-15
Rome At War written by Nathan Rosenstein and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12-15 with History categories.
Historians have long asserted that during and after the Hannibalic War, the Roman Republic's need to conscript men for long-term military service helped bring about the demise of Italy's small farms and that the misery of impoverished citizens then became fuel for the social and political conflagrations of the late republic. Nathan Rosenstein challenges this claim, showing how Rome reconciled the needs of war and agriculture throughout the middle republic. The key, Rosenstein argues, lies in recognizing the critical role of family formation. By analyzing models of families' needs for agricultural labor over their life cycles, he shows that families often had a surplus of manpower to meet the demands of military conscription. Did, then, Roman imperialism play any role in the social crisis of the later second century B.C.? Rosenstein argues that Roman warfare had critical demographic consequences that have gone unrecognized by previous historians: heavy military mortality paradoxically helped sustain a dramatic increase in the birthrate, ultimately leading to overpopulation and landlessness.