What disease was plague? : on the controversy over the microbiological identity of plague epidemics of the past /
In this monograph, the alternative theories to the established bubonic-plague theory as to the microbiological identity of historical plague epidemics are intensively discussed in the light of the historical sources and the medical primary research and standard works.
| Основен автор: | Benedictow, Ole J©ırgen. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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| Серия: |
Brill's series in the history of the environment ;
v. 2. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=351144 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
What disease was plague? |
Съдържание:
- 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.