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Murderous contagion : a human history of disease / Mary Dobson.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
614.49 DOBS	Adult Non Fiction		Campsie .	. Available .

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ISBN	9781782069430 (paperback)
Name	Dobson, Mary author.
Title	Murderous contagion : a human history of disease / Mary Dobson.
Published	London : Quercus, 2015.
Published	©2015
Description	602 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 20 cm.
Notes	First published: 2007.
Notes	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	Disease is the true serial killer of human history: the horrors of bubonic plague, cholera, syphilis, smallpox, tuberculosis and the like have claimed more lives and caused more misery than the depredations of warfare, famine and natural disasters combined. Murderous Contagion tells the compelling and at times unbearably moving story of the devastating impact of diseases on humankind - from the Black Death of the 14th century to the Spanish flu of 1918-19 and the AIDS epidemic of the modern era. In this book Mary Dobson also relates the endeavours of physicians and scientists to understand and identify the causes of diseases and find ways of preventing them. This is a timely and revelatory work of popular history by a writer whose knowledge of, and enthusiasm for, her subject shines through her every word.
Subjects	Diseases and history
	Epidemiology -- History
	Diseases -- History
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Diseases and history . Diseases -- History . Epidemiology -- History . See Also: History . Authors: Dobson, Mary .