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History of Infectious Disease Pandemics in Urban Societies (Hardcover)
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History of Infectious Disease Pandemics in Urban Societies (Hardcover)
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Beginning in the mid-19th century tremendous gains were made in the
historical struggle with infectious diseases. The emergence of
modern medicine and epidemiology, and the establishment of public
health measures, helped urban populations overcome a historical
death penalty. The conquest of infectious disease has created a
human hubris. It is a collective self-delusion that infectious
diseases, once exposed to the light of modern medicine, science,
and public health would inevitably become eradicated. When these
advances began in the mid-19th century the world's population was
under two billion, mostly non-urbanized. At the dawn of the 21st
century the world's population already surpassed seven billion. The
world's once far flung urban populations have exponentially
expanded in number, size, and connectivity. Infectious diseases
have long benefited from the concentration of human population and
their opportunistic abilities to take advantage of their
interconnectedness. The struggle between humans and infectious
diseases is one in which there is a waxing and waning advantage of
one over the other. Human hubris has been challenged since the late
1970s with the prospect that infectious diseases are not
eradicated. Concerns have increased since the latter third of the
twentieth century that infectious diseases are gaining a new
foothold. As pandemics from AIDS to Ebola have increased in
frequency, there has also developed a sense that a global pandemic
of a much greater magnitude is likely to happen. Tracing the
historical record, this book examines the manners in which
population concentrations have long been associated with the spread
of pandemic disease. It also examines the struggle between human
attempts to contain infectious diseases, and the microbial struggle
to contain human population advancement.
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