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| adam_text | THE POWER OF PLAGUES
/ SHERMAN, IRWIN W.YYEAUTHOR
: 2017
TABLE OF CONTENTS / INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
THE NATURE OF PLAGUES
PLAGUES, THE PRICE OF BEING SEDENTARY
SIX PLAGUES OF ANTIQUITY
AN ANCIENT PLAGUE, THE BLACK DEATH
A 21ST CENTURY PLAGUE, AIDS
TYPHUS, A FEVER PLAGUE
MALARIA, ANOTHER FEVER PLAGUE
KING CHOLERA
SMALLPOX, THE SPOTTED PLAGUE
PREVENTING PLAGUES: IMMUNIZATION
THE PLAGUE PROTECTORS: ANTISEPSIS TO ANTIBIOTICS
THE GREAT POX SYPHILIS
THE PEOPLE S PLAGUE: TUBERCULOSIS
LEPROSY, THE STRIKING HAND OF GOD
SIX PLAGUES OF AFRICA
EMERGING AND RE-EMERGING PLAGUES
DIESES SCHRIFTSTUECK WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT.
Preface | vii
1. The Nature of Plagues | 1
2. Plagues, the Price of Being Sedentary | 21
3. Six Plagues of Antiquity | 43
4. An Ancient Plague, the Black Death | 67
5. A 21st Century Plague, AIDS | 91
6. Typhus, a Fever Plague | 113
7. Malaria, Another Fever Plague j 133
8. “King Cholera” ¡ 163
9. Smallpox, the Spotted Plague | 197
10. Preventing Plagues: Immunization | 217
11. The Plague Protectors: Antisepsis to Antibiotics | 265
12. The Great Pox Syphilis | 305
13. The People’s Plague: Tuberculosis | 323
14. Leprosy, the Striking Hand of God | 355
15. Six Plagues of Africa | 367
16. Emerging and Re-emerging Plagues | 411
Appendix. Cells and Viruses | 446
Notes | 449
Bibliography | 466
Index | 485
THE POWER OF PLAGUES M Elm
How pathogenic microorganism? have shaped human civilization
The Power of Plagues presents a rogues gallery of epidemic-causing microorganisms placed
in the context of world history. Author Irwin W. Sherman introduces the microbes that
caused these epidemics and the people who sought (and still seek) to understand how
diseases and epidemics are managed. What makes this book especially fascinating are the
many threads that Sherman weaves together as he explains how plagues past and present
have shaped the outcome of wars and altered the course of medicine, religion, education,
feudalism, and science. Cholera gave birth to the field of epidemiology. The bdbonic plague
epidemic that began in 1346 led to the formation of universities in cities far from the major
centers of learning (and hot spots of the Black Death) at that time. And the Anopheles
mosquito and malaria aided General George Washington during the American devolution.
Sadly, when microbes have inflicted death and suffering, people have sometimes responded
by invoking discrimination, scapegoating, and quarantine, often unfairly, against races or
classes of people presumed to be the cause of the epidemic.
Pathogens are not the only stars of this book. Many scientists and physicians who toiled to
understand, treat, and prevent these plagues are also featured. Sherman tells engaging
tales of the development of vaccines, anesthesia, antiseptics, and antibiotics. This arsenal has
dramatically reduced the suffering and death caused by infectious diseases, but these plague
protectors are imperfect, due to their side effects or attenuation and because microbes
almost invariably develop resistance to antimicrobial drugs.
The Power of Plagues provides a sobering reminder that plagues are not a thing of the past.
Along with the persistence of tuberculosis, malaria, river blindness, and AIDS, emerging and
remerging epidemics continue to confound global and national public health efforts, West
Nile virus, Lyme disease, and Ebola and Zika viruses are just some of the newest rogues to
plague humans.
The argument that civilization has been shaped to a significant degree by the power
of plagues is compelling, and The Power of Plagues makes the case in an engaging and
informative way that will be satisfying to scientists and non-scientists alike.
Irwin W. Sherman, Professor Emeritus at the University of California (Riverside),
is a Visiting Professor in the School of Medicine at the University of California
at San Diego. His laboratory research centered on the biochemistry of malaria
parasites and resulted in more than 150 scholarly papers. Dr. Sherman wrote
Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World, also published by ASM Press, and
several books that share his expertise in malaria prevention and treatment.
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