Author: Howard Phillips
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0821420283
This is the first history of epidemics in South Africa, lethal episodes that significantly shaped this society over three centuries. Download Epidemics: The Story of South Africa's Five Most Lethal Human Diseases (Ohio Short Histories of Africa) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Focusing on five devastating diseases between 1713 and today-smallpox, bubonic plague, "Spanish influenza," polio, and HIV/AIDS-the book probes their origins, their catastrophic courses, and their consequences in both the short and long terms. The impacts of these epidemics ranged from the demographic-the "Spanish flu," for instance, claimed the lives of 6 percent of the country's population in six weeks-to the political, the social, the economic, the spiritual, the psychological, and the cultural. Moreover, as each of these epidemics occurred at crucial moments in the country's history-such as d Search and find a lot of medical books in many category availabe for free download. Epidemics medical books pdf for free. Focusing on five devastating diseases between 1713 and today-smallpox, bubonic plague, "Spanish influenza," polio, and HIV/AIDS-the book probes their origins, their catastrophic courses, and their consequences in both the short and long terms Moreover, as each of these epidemics occurred at crucial moments in the country's history-such as d
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0821420283
This is the first history of epidemics in South Africa, lethal episodes that significantly shaped this society over three centuries. Download Epidemics: The Story of South Africa's Five Most Lethal Human Diseases (Ohio Short Histories of Africa) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Focusing on five devastating diseases between 1713 and today-smallpox, bubonic plague, "Spanish influenza," polio, and HIV/AIDS-the book probes their origins, their catastrophic courses, and their consequences in both the short and long terms. The impacts of these epidemics ranged from the demographic-the "Spanish flu," for instance, claimed the lives of 6 percent of the country's population in six weeks-to the political, the social, the economic, the spiritual, the psychological, and the cultural. Moreover, as each of these epidemics occurred at crucial moments in the country's history-such as d Search and find a lot of medical books in many category availabe for free download. Epidemics medical books pdf for free. Focusing on five devastating diseases between 1713 and today-smallpox, bubonic plague, "Spanish influenza," polio, and HIV/AIDS-the book probes their origins, their catastrophic courses, and their consequences in both the short and long terms Moreover, as each of these epidemics occurred at crucial moments in the country's history-such as d
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