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  • Emerging infectious diseases and society[electronic resource] /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 362.196/9
    書名/作者: Emerging infectious diseases and society/ Peter Washer.
    作者: Washer, Peter.
    出版者: New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2010.
    面頁冊數: xiv, 191 p.
    標題: Emerging infectious diseases
    標題: Communicable Diseases, Emerging.
    標題: Social Conditions.
    標題: Socioeconomic Factors.
    標題: World Health.
    ISBN: 9780230277182
    ISBN: 0230277187
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    內容註: Factors in the Emergence of Infectious Diseases -- The Conquest of Infectious Disease -- AIDSand the End of the Golden Age of Medicine -- Modernity, Globalization and Emerging Infectious Diseases -- Mad Cows, Modern Plagues and Superbugs -- Dirt, Germs and the Immune System -- The Bioterrorism Myth -- Emerging Infectious Diseases, Security and Global Poverty -- References.
    摘要、提要註: By the 1970s, medicine appeared to have conquered infectious diseases. A century before, newly discovered germ theory had laid the foundations for advances in vaccines and antibiotics, but deaths and illness from infectious diseases had been declining in the developed world even before this 'golden age' of medicine. Infectious diseases were perceivedas archaic, and future health threats seemed to come from so-called diseases of civilization, such as heart disease and cancer. The appearance of AIDS in the early 1980s radically reversed that trend, and since then over thirty new infectious diseases have been classified, includingmad cow disease and antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria, such as MRSA. Furthermore, old threats, such as tuberculosis, have re-emerged as they have become immune to established treatments. This fascinating study charts the rise of new infectious diseases and examines the cultural context and anxieties that surround their emergence, revealing the underlying social and political concerns that determine our response to disease in the 21st century.
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