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Brill
Language
English
Pages
800

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Subjects
Epidemiology, History, Plague, Microbiology, Communicable diseases

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What disease was plague?: on the controversy over the microbiological identity of plague epidemics of the past
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Table of Contents

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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Brill's series in the history of the environment -- v. 2, Brill's series in the history of the environment -- v. 2.
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614.5/732
Library of Congress
RC172 .B47 2010, RC172.B47 2010

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800

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9789004180024
LCCN
2010030516
OCLC/WorldCat
649795889

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