Buch, Englisch, 842 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1584 g
An Historical Geography of Infectious Diseases in Military Conflict and Civil Strife, 1850-2000
Buch, Englisch, 842 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1584 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-823364-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Down the ages, war epidemics have decimated the fighting strength of armies, caused the suspension and cancellation of military operations, and have brought havoc to the civil populations of belligerent and non-belligerent states alike. This book examines the historical occurrence and geographical spread of infectious diseases in association with past wars. It addresses an intrinsically geographical question: how are the spatial dynamics of epidemics influenced by military operations and the directives of war? The term historical geography in the title indicates the authors' primary concern with qualitative analyses of archival source materials over a 150-year time period from 1850, and this is combined with quantitative analyses less frequently associated with historical studies.
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.
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Fachgebiete
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Mathematik & Informatik
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Geographie, Landkarten & Atlanten
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Angewandte Ökologie
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Umweltmedizin, Arbeitsmedizin, Tropenmedizin, Sportmedizin Umweltmedizin
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Pathologie, Cytopathologie, Histopathologie
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
- Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Historische Geographie
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Epidemiologie, Medizinische Statistik
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Infektionskrankheiten
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
Weitere Infos & Material
- Prologue
- I: Ware and Disease
- 1: Wars and War Epidemics
- 2: Epidemics in Early Wars
- II: Temporal Trends
- 3: Mortality and Morbidity in Modern Wars, I: Civil Populations
- 4: Mortality and Morbidity in Modern Wars, II: Military Populations
- 5: Motality and Morbidity in Modern Wars, III: Displace Populations
- III: A Regional Pattern of War Epidemics
- 6: Tracking Epidemics
- 7: Pan America: Military Mobilization and Disease in the United States
- 8: Europe: Camp Epidemics
- 9: Asia and the Far East: Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases
- 10: Africa: Soldiers, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and War
- 11: Oceania: War Epidemics in South Pacific Islands
- 12: Further Regional Studies
- IV: Prospects
- 13: War and Disease: Recent Trends and Future Threats
- Epilogue
