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Cholera: The Biography

Out of Print
By: Christopher Hamlin
256 pages, 15 black and white illustrations
Cholera: The Biography
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  • Cholera: The Biography ISBN: 9780199546244 Hardback Oct 2009 Out of Print #181224
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About this book

Cholera is a frightening disease. Victims are wracked by stomach cramps and suffer intense diarrhoea. Death can come within hours. Though now seeming a distant memory in Europe, which suffered several epidemics in the 19th century before John Snow identified the link with water, it is still a serious threat in many parts of the world - Zimbabwe is a recent example. Snow's discovery was one of the great breakthroughs of epidemiology and a wonderful story from the history of science. Later came the discovery of the culprit organism - Cholera vibrio - understanding of its life cycle, and the development of a vaccine. But the problem of cholera has not disappeared.

This book tells the story of cholera, and looks at both the medical success in the West, and the different attitudes to the disease in countries in which it is prevalent as opposed to those in which it put in a temporary appearance. Unlike other books on cholera, which focus on the experience of particular countries, Christopher Hamlin's account draws together the experiences from various countries, both those that were colonies and those that were not.

Contents

1. Cholera - the very idea; 2. Cholera finds itself; 3. Citizen cholera; 4. Cholera confuses; 5. Cholera goes into analysis, and dies; 6. Cholera's last laugh; Prologue; Further reading

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Out of Print
By: Christopher Hamlin
256 pages, 15 black and white illustrations
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It is a masterly fusion of history and contemporary research. Fascinating stuff. The Scotsman The stories they tell are often fascinating and alarming - pitched somewhere between farce, genius, horror and a lab report. The Scotsman These four 'biographies' of diseases go far beyond questions of biology or medical practice; they talk politics, sex and class, faith. The Scotsman The notion of an ailment having a birth, a lifespan, and - ideally - a demise...is an illuminating and useful concept. Wendy Moore, British Medical Journal

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