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Fevers, feuds, and diamonds : Ebola and the ravages of history / Paul Farmer.
"Public health expert Paul Farmer describes the historical origins of the 2014 Ebola epidemic"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374234324
- ISBN: 0374234329
- Physical Description: xxviii, 653 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [527]-619) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Preface : The caregivers' disease -- Part I : Ebola hits home. The twenty-fifth epidemic? -- Tough calls -- Ibrahim's second chance -- The two ordeals of abom -- Interlude I : Down the rabbit hole -- Part III : Fevers, feuds, and diamonds. The Upper Guinea coast and the world the slaves made -- The great cramble and the rise of the pasteurians -- A world at war : the making of a clinical desert -- Things fall apart : civil war and its aftermath -- Interlude I : The crisis caravan -- Part III : Death and life after ebola. How ebola kills : an exercise in social medicine -- The silly things and the fever next ime -- Epilogue : The color of COVID. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Ebola virus disease > History. Epidemics. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Lehigh Carbon Library Cooperative.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower Macungie Library | 614.57 FAR (Text) | 33400001508723 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
