War epidemics
and historical geography of infectious diseases in military conflict in civil strife, 1850-2000
- ISBN: 9780198233640
- Fecha de la edición: 2004
- Lugar de la edición: Oxford. Reino Unido
- Colección: Geographical and environmental studies series
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 736
- Idiomas: Inglés
Papel: Cartoné
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Written from the viewpoints of historical geography, epidemiology, and spatial analysis, this book examines in four parts the historical occurrence and geographical spread of infectious diseases in association with wars. Part I: War and Disease, surveys war-disease associations from early times to 1850. Part II: Temporal Trends studies time trends since 1850. Part III: A Regional Pattern of War Epidemics, examines grand themes in the war-disease complex. Part IV: Prospects, considers a series of war-related issues of epidemiological significance in the twenty-first century. Readership: Students and scholars in demography, military and economic history, and the history of medicine
