The Power of Plagues
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Author(s): I. Sherman
Publisher: ASM Press
ISBN: 1555813569
Format: hardback
431pp
Price: £27.00
Review Date: 24 June 2006
Review: The course of history has been altered as a result of human encounters with infectious diseases. Here Irwin Sherman begins by explaining how we came to understand the nature of severe outbreaks of epidemic diseases. He talks of scientists and how they discovered the causes and learn to control such diseases, as well as the way in which plagues and culture interact to affect the values, traditions and the institutions of Western society. he looks at past plagues – plagues of antiquity and the Black Death. He also gives a view of the current situation, and goes on to give possible solutions to future plagues, such as malaria, tuberculosis, cholera, AIDS, mad cow disease, influenza and West Nile.