What disease was plague? : on the controversy over the microbiological identity of plague epidemics of the past /
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| Author / Creator: | Benedictow, Ole Jørgen. |
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| Imprint: | Leiden : Brill, 2010. |
| Description: | p. ; cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's series in the history of the environment, 1876-6595 ; v. 2 Brill ebook titles Brill's series in the history of the environment ; v. 2. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9354204 |
Table of Contents:
- The issue and the problems
- The ethics of scholarly work
- Rats
- The spread of bubonic plague over distances
- Mortality in india
- Was historical plague a viral or bacterial disease? : the question of immunity
- Defining feature 1 : latency periods
- Defining feature 2 : inverse correlation between mortality rate and population density
- Defining feature 3 : buboes as a normal clinical feature in epidemics
- Defining feature 4 : DNA of yersinia pestis from plague graves
- Defining feature 5 : seasonality of bubonic plague
- The beginning : the alternative theories of Shrewsbury and Morris
- Gunnar Karlsson's alternative theory : that historical plague was pure epidemics of primary pneumonic plague
- Twigg's alternative theory
- The alternative theory of Scott and Duncan
- Cohn's alternative theory.