Author: Dhiman Barua
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475796889
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Research on cholera has contributed both to knowledge of the epidemic in particular, and to a broader understanding of the fundamental ways in which cells communicate with each other. This volume presents current knowledge in historical perspective to enable the practitioner to treat cholera in a more effective manner, and to provide a comprehensive review for the researcher.
Cholera
Author: Dhiman Barua
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475796889
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Research on cholera has contributed both to knowledge of the epidemic in particular, and to a broader understanding of the fundamental ways in which cells communicate with each other. This volume presents current knowledge in historical perspective to enable the practitioner to treat cholera in a more effective manner, and to provide a comprehensive review for the researcher.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475796889
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Research on cholera has contributed both to knowledge of the epidemic in particular, and to a broader understanding of the fundamental ways in which cells communicate with each other. This volume presents current knowledge in historical perspective to enable the practitioner to treat cholera in a more effective manner, and to provide a comprehensive review for the researcher.
Between Hope and Fear
Author: Michael Kinch
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681778203
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
If you have a child in school, you may have heard stories of long-dormant diseases suddenly reappearing—cases of measles, mumps, rubella, and whooping cough cropping up everywhere from elementary schools to Ivy League universities because a select group of parents refuse to vaccinate their children. Between Hope and Fear tells the remarkable story of vaccine-preventable infectious diseases and their social and political implications. While detailing the history of vaccine invention, Kinch reveals the ominous reality that our victories against vaccine-preventable diseases are not permanent—and could easily be undone. In the tradition of John Barry’s The Great Influenza and Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Emperor of All Maladies, Between Hope and Fear relates the remarkable intersection of science, technology, and disease that has helped eradicate many of the deadliest plagues known to man.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681778203
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
If you have a child in school, you may have heard stories of long-dormant diseases suddenly reappearing—cases of measles, mumps, rubella, and whooping cough cropping up everywhere from elementary schools to Ivy League universities because a select group of parents refuse to vaccinate their children. Between Hope and Fear tells the remarkable story of vaccine-preventable infectious diseases and their social and political implications. While detailing the history of vaccine invention, Kinch reveals the ominous reality that our victories against vaccine-preventable diseases are not permanent—and could easily be undone. In the tradition of John Barry’s The Great Influenza and Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Emperor of All Maladies, Between Hope and Fear relates the remarkable intersection of science, technology, and disease that has helped eradicate many of the deadliest plagues known to man.
Cholera: The American Scientific Experience, 1947-1980
Author: W. E. van Heyningen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429724977
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Cholera—the dehydration disease that can be fatal in just one or two days—has been one of mankind's most tenacious and enigmatic adversaries. Its well-documented history is the story of the vagaries of a disease that originated in the Ganges delta, where it causes annual epidemics, whose European incarnation is as old as the Battle of Waterloo, and which was responsible for six pandemics in the nineteenth century alone, three reaching the United States, claiming 300,000 lives altogether. This book records the role of U.S. medical science in the most recent—and finally successful—campaign against cholera. Drs. van Heyningen and Seal describe the first large-scale American research encounters with cholera, in Cairo in 1947 and in Bangkok in 1959. The authors then trace the growth in U.S. scientific and political interest in the eradication of cholera and describe the medical research and training facilities founded by the United States in Asia. There were failures as well as successes—exhaustive field trials of cholera vaccine proved ineffective—but eventually a simple oral treatment was found, and, in the process, advances were made toward the treatment of other dehydration diseases. The authors devote an entire chapter to the biochemistry underlying the physiology of cholera because its implications reach far beyond the disease itself and throw light on many aspects of normal and abnormal biochemistry. They also recall the debt of modern cholera research to earlier discoveries, which were too often neglected. This extraordinary history of one of the most important developments in medicine concludes with an account of how, with the emergence of the independent republic of Bangladesh, the U.S.-dominated cholera research laboratory was, with good will, transformed into a locally controlled international center for the study of diarrhoeal disease and related problems.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429724977
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Cholera—the dehydration disease that can be fatal in just one or two days—has been one of mankind's most tenacious and enigmatic adversaries. Its well-documented history is the story of the vagaries of a disease that originated in the Ganges delta, where it causes annual epidemics, whose European incarnation is as old as the Battle of Waterloo, and which was responsible for six pandemics in the nineteenth century alone, three reaching the United States, claiming 300,000 lives altogether. This book records the role of U.S. medical science in the most recent—and finally successful—campaign against cholera. Drs. van Heyningen and Seal describe the first large-scale American research encounters with cholera, in Cairo in 1947 and in Bangkok in 1959. The authors then trace the growth in U.S. scientific and political interest in the eradication of cholera and describe the medical research and training facilities founded by the United States in Asia. There were failures as well as successes—exhaustive field trials of cholera vaccine proved ineffective—but eventually a simple oral treatment was found, and, in the process, advances were made toward the treatment of other dehydration diseases. The authors devote an entire chapter to the biochemistry underlying the physiology of cholera because its implications reach far beyond the disease itself and throw light on many aspects of normal and abnormal biochemistry. They also recall the debt of modern cholera research to earlier discoveries, which were too often neglected. This extraordinary history of one of the most important developments in medicine concludes with an account of how, with the emergence of the independent republic of Bangladesh, the U.S.-dominated cholera research laboratory was, with good will, transformed into a locally controlled international center for the study of diarrhoeal disease and related problems.
The Journal of the London School of Tropical Medicine ...
Author: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tropical medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tropical medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Proceeding of the Cholera Research Symposium, January 24-29, 1965, Honolulu, Hawaii
Author: National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The History of Inoculation and Vaccination for the Prevention and Treatment of Disease
Author: Burroughs Wellcome and Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communicable diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
"The practice of inoculation for the prevention of disease is one of considerable antiquity. The period of its discovery can only be conjectured, but there is little doubt that even in remote times it mush have been recognised by man, that certain diseases occur once only durng the life of an individual, or that after recovery he is generally immune against further attacks of the same disease." -- Chapter 1, Page 10.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communicable diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
"The practice of inoculation for the prevention of disease is one of considerable antiquity. The period of its discovery can only be conjectured, but there is little doubt that even in remote times it mush have been recognised by man, that certain diseases occur once only durng the life of an individual, or that after recovery he is generally immune against further attacks of the same disease." -- Chapter 1, Page 10.
The Folate Story: A vitamin under the microscope
Author: Victor Hoffbrand
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803134763
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The story of folate (vitamin B9) is one of outstanding achievements which have advanced major areas of medical practice and also of scandals of international significance.
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803134763
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The story of folate (vitamin B9) is one of outstanding achievements which have advanced major areas of medical practice and also of scandals of international significance.
Report of the Haffkine Institute for the Year
Author: Haffkine Institute, Bombay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
Author: Royal Society of Medicine (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
Book Description
Comprises the proceedings of the various sections of the society, each with separate t.-p. and pagination.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
Book Description
Comprises the proceedings of the various sections of the society, each with separate t.-p. and pagination.
Collected Papers
Author: Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description