"From the discovery of microorganisms to the end of smallpox, the story of how we came to understand the infectious diseases that once killed us & how we might escape such diseases in the future"--
"From the discovery of microorganisms to the end of smallpox, the story of how we came to understand the infectious diseases that once killed us & how we might escape such diseases in the future"--
Richard Conniff is a National Magazine Award-winning writer for Smithsonian magazine, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and other publications, and a past Guggenheim Fellow. Among his many books are The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth; Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding Time: My Life Doing Dumb Stuff with Animals; The Natural History of the Rich: A Field Guide; and, most recently, House of Lost Worlds: Dinosaurs, Dynasties, and the Story of Life on Earth. Conniff has been a commentator on NPR's Marketplace and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times.
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Preface: The Healing ix 1 What the Draper Saw 1 2 Deadly Preconceptions 11 3 Foreign Bodies 17 4 Precursors 25 5 Ridiculous Diseases, Inconceivable Ideas 31 6 Buying the Pox 39 7 Slaying the Speckled Monster 51 8 An Angel's Trumpet 59 9 The Great Sanitary Awakening 69 10 Finding Pathogens 81 11 The Semmelweis Reflex 89 12 Making Sense of Cholera 99 13 The Broad Street Pump 109 14 Louis Pasteur: The Rising 119 15 The Subtle Foe 131 16 The Mystery of the Cursed Meadows 137 17 A New Vaccine 145 18 The Bible of Bacteriology 155 19 Defining the Indefinable Something 161 20 (Re)discovering Cholera 171 21 A Sacred Delirium 179 22 Immunity and the Strangling Angel 191 23 Deadly Carriers 205 24 The Beast in the Mosquito 213 25 Fit for Duty 223 26 A Pathogen too Far 233 27 Midnight Work 239 28 The Antibacterial Revolution 249 29 Penicillin 257 30 Race to the Vaccine 271 31 Zero Pox 289 Epilogue: The Plague Next Time 305 Acknowledgments 311 Notes 313 Index 341
Preface: The Healing ix 1 What the Draper Saw 1 2 Deadly Preconceptions 11 3 Foreign Bodies 17 4 Precursors 25 5 Ridiculous Diseases, Inconceivable Ideas 31 6 Buying the Pox 39 7 Slaying the Speckled Monster 51 8 An Angel's Trumpet 59 9 The Great Sanitary Awakening 69 10 Finding Pathogens 81 11 The Semmelweis Reflex 89 12 Making Sense of Cholera 99 13 The Broad Street Pump 109 14 Louis Pasteur: The Rising 119 15 The Subtle Foe 131 16 The Mystery of the Cursed Meadows 137 17 A New Vaccine 145 18 The Bible of Bacteriology 155 19 Defining the Indefinable Something 161 20 (Re)discovering Cholera 171 21 A Sacred Delirium 179 22 Immunity and the Strangling Angel 191 23 Deadly Carriers 205 24 The Beast in the Mosquito 213 25 Fit for Duty 223 26 A Pathogen too Far 233 27 Midnight Work 239 28 The Antibacterial Revolution 249 29 Penicillin 257 30 Race to the Vaccine 271 31 Zero Pox 289 Epilogue: The Plague Next Time 305 Acknowledgments 311 Notes 313 Index 341
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