Ending Epidemics
By Richard Conniff
By Richard Conniff
By Richard Conniff
By Richard Conniff
By Richard Conniff
By Richard Conniff
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$27.95
Mar 11, 2025 | ISBN 9780262552974
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$34.95
Apr 11, 2023 | ISBN 9780262047968
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Apr 11, 2023 | ISBN 9780262373852
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Praise
“[A] highly readable history of epidemic diseases and vaccinologists, from the first description of bacteria in 1676 to the eradication of smallpox in 1978.“
—Nature
“Conniff gives us the development of immunology and antibiotics —famously the work of Louis Pasteur, Alexander Fleming, Robert Koch and Paul Ehrlich—in easy-to-swallow chunks.”
—TLS
Table Of Contents
Preface: The Healing ix
1 What the Draper Saw 1
2 Deadly Preconceptions 11
3 Foreign Bodies 17
4 Precursors 25
5 Ridiculous Diseases, Inconceivable Ideas 31
6 Buying the Pox 39
7 Slaying the Speckled Monster 51
8 An Angel’s Trumpet 59
9 The Great Sanitary Awakening 69
10 Finding Pathogens 81
11 The Semmelweis Reflex 89
12 Making Sense of Cholera 99
13 The Broad Street Pump 109
14 Louis Pasteur: The Rising 119
15 The Subtle Foe 131
16 The Mystery of the Cursed Meadows 137
17 A New Vaccine 145
18 The Bible of Bacteriology 155
19 Defining the Indefinable Something 161
20 (Re)discovering Cholera 171
21 A Sacred Delirium 179
22 Immunity and the Strangling Angel 191
23 Deadly Carriers 205
24 The Beast in the Mosquito 213
25 Fit for Duty 223
26 A Pathogen too Far 233
27 Midnight Work 239
28 The Antibacterial Revolution 249
29 Penicillin 257
30 Race to the Vaccine 271
31 Zero Pox 289
Epilogue: The Plague Next Time 305
Acknowledgments 311
Notes 313
Index 341
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