Epidemics In Context
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Author |
: Institute of Medicine |
Publisher |
: National Academies Press |
Total Pages |
: 431 |
Release |
: 2005-04-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780309095044 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0309095042 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Threat of Pandemic Influenza by : Institute of Medicine
Public health officials and organizations around the world remain on high alert because of increasing concerns about the prospect of an influenza pandemic, which many experts believe to be inevitable. Moreover, recent problems with the availability and strain-specificity of vaccine for annual flu epidemics in some countries and the rise of pandemic strains of avian flu in disparate geographic regions have alarmed experts about the world's ability to prevent or contain a human pandemic. The workshop summary, The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Are We Ready? addresses these urgent concerns. The report describes what steps the United States and other countries have taken thus far to prepare for the next outbreak of "killer flu." It also looks at gaps in readiness, including hospitals' inability to absorb a surge of patients and many nations' incapacity to monitor and detect flu outbreaks. The report points to the need for international agreements to share flu vaccine and antiviral stockpiles to ensure that the 88 percent of nations that cannot manufacture or stockpile these products have access to them. It chronicles the toll of the H5N1 strain of avian flu currently circulating among poultry in many parts of Asia, which now accounts for the culling of millions of birds and the death of at least 50 persons. And it compares the costs of preparations with the costs of illness and death that could arise during an outbreak.
Author |
: Hippocrates |
Publisher |
: Good Press |
Total Pages |
: 52 |
Release |
: 2021-04-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: EAN:4064066465933 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis On Epidemics by : Hippocrates
"On Epidemics" by Hippocrates (translated by Francis Adams). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author |
: Damir Huremović |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 188 |
Release |
: 2019-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030153465 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030153460 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Psychiatry of Pandemics by : Damir Huremović
This book focuses on how to formulate a mental health response with respect to the unique elements of pandemic outbreaks. Unlike other disaster psychiatry books that isolate aspects of an emergency, this book unifies the clinical aspects of disaster and psychosomatic psychiatry with infectious disease responses at the various levels, making it an excellent resource for tackling each stage of a crisis quickly and thoroughly. The book begins by contextualizing the issues with a historical and infectious disease overview of pandemics ranging from the Spanish flu of 1918, the HIV epidemic, Ebola, Zika, and many other outbreaks. The text acknowledges the new infectious disease challenges presented by climate changes and considers how to implement systems to prepare for these issues from an infection and social psyche perspective. The text then delves into the mental health aspects of these crises, including community and cultural responses, emotional epidemiology, and mental health concerns in the aftermath of a disaster. Finally, the text considers medical responses to situation-specific trauma, including quarantine and isolation-associated trauma, the mental health aspects of immunization and vaccination, survivor mental health, and support for healthcare personnel, thereby providing guidance for some of the most alarming trends facing the medical community. Written by experts in the field, Psychiatry of Pandemics is an excellent resource for infectious disease specialists, psychiatrists, psychologists, immunologists, hospitalists, public health officials, nurses, and medical professionals who may work patients in an infectious disease outbreak.
Author |
: Gina Kolata |
Publisher |
: Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages |
: 378 |
Release |
: 2011-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781429979351 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1429979356 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Flu by : Gina Kolata
Veteran journalist Gina Kolata's Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It presents a fascinating look at true story of the world's deadliest disease. In 1918, the Great Flu Epidemic felled the young and healthy virtually overnight. An estimated forty million people died as the epidemic raged. Children were left orphaned and families were devastated. As many American soldiers were killed by the 1918 flu as were killed in battle during World War I. And no area of the globe was safe. Eskimos living in remote outposts in the frozen tundra were sickened and killed by the flu in such numbers that entire villages were wiped out. Scientists have recently rediscovered shards of the flu virus frozen in Alaska and preserved in scraps of tissue in a government warehouse. Gina Kolata, an acclaimed reporter for The New York Times, unravels the mystery of this lethal virus with the high drama of a great adventure story. Delving into the history of the flu and previous epidemics, detailing the science and the latest understanding of this mortal disease, Kolata addresses the prospects for a great epidemic recurring, and, most important, what can be done to prevent it.
Author |
: Peter E. Pormann |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 2012-04-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110259803 |
ISBN-13 |
: 311025980X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Epidemics in Context by : Peter E. Pormann
The Hippocratic Epidemics and Galen’s Commentary on them constitute milestones in the development of clinical medicine. But they also illustrate the rich exegetical traditions that existed in the post-classical Greek world. The present volume investigates these texts from various and diverse vantage points: textual criticism; Greek philology; knowledge transfer through translations; and medical history. Especially the Syriac and Arabic traditions of the Epidemics come under scrutiny.
Author |
: Frank M. Snowden |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 603 |
Release |
: 2019-10-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300249149 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300249144 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Epidemics and Society by : Frank M. Snowden
A wide-ranging study that illuminates the connection between epidemic diseases and societal change, from the Black Death to Ebola This sweeping exploration of the impact of epidemic diseases looks at how mass infectious outbreaks have shaped society, from the Black Death to today. In a clear and accessible style, Frank M. Snowden reveals the ways that diseases have not only influenced medical science and public health, but also transformed the arts, religion, intellectual history, and warfare. A multidisciplinary and comparative investigation of the medical and social history of the major epidemics, this volume touches on themes such as the evolution of medical therapy, plague literature, poverty, the environment, and mass hysteria. In addition to providing historical perspective on diseases such as smallpox, cholera, and tuberculosis, Snowden examines the fallout from recent epidemics such as HIV/AIDS, SARS, and Ebola and the question of the world’s preparedness for the next generation of diseases.
Author |
: Institute of Medicine |
Publisher |
: National Academies Press |
Total Pages |
: 376 |
Release |
: 2004-04-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780309182157 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0309182158 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Learning from SARS by : Institute of Medicine
The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in late 2002 and 2003 challenged the global public health community to confront a novel epidemic that spread rapidly from its origins in southern China until it had reached more than 25 other countries within a matter of months. In addition to the number of patients infected with the SARS virus, the disease had profound economic and political repercussions in many of the affected regions. Recent reports of isolated new SARS cases and a fear that the disease could reemerge and spread have put public health officials on high alert for any indications of possible new outbreaks. This report examines the response to SARS by public health systems in individual countries, the biology of the SARS coronavirus and related coronaviruses in animals, the economic and political fallout of the SARS epidemic, quarantine law and other public health measures that apply to combating infectious diseases, and the role of international organizations and scientific cooperation in halting the spread of SARS. The report provides an illuminating survey of findings from the epidemic, along with an assessment of what might be needed in order to contain any future outbreaks of SARS or other emerging infections.
Author |
: Samuel Kline Cohn (Jr.) |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 656 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198819660 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198819668 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Epidemics by : Samuel Kline Cohn (Jr.)
By investigating thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the distrust and violence that erupted with Ebola in 2014, Epidemics challenges a dominant hypothesis in the study of epidemics, that invariably across time and space, epidemics provoked hatred, blaming of the "other", and victimizing bearers of epidemic diseases, particularly when diseases were mysterious, without known cures or preventive measures, as with AIDS during the last two decades of the twentieth century. However, scholars and public intellectuals, especially post-AIDS, have missed a fundamental aspect of the history of epidemics. Instead of sparking hatred and blame, this study traces epidemics' socio-psychological consequences across time and discovers a radically different picture: that epidemic diseases have more often unified societies across class, race, ethnicity, and religion, spurring self-sacrifice and compassion.
Author |
: Robert Shannan Peckham |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 379 |
Release |
: 2016-04-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107084681 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107084687 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Epidemics in Modern Asia by : Robert Shannan Peckham
The first history of epidemics in modern Asia. Robert Peckham considers the varieties of responses that epidemics have elicited - from India to China and the Russian Far East - and examines the processes that have helped to produce and diffuse disease across the region.
Author |
: Charles E. Rosenberg |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 372 |
Release |
: 1992-08-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521395690 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521395694 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Explaining Epidemics by : Charles E. Rosenberg
Collection of author's essays previously published individually