Research Catalog

Title

Inside the outbreaks : the elite medical detectives of the epidemic intelligence service / Mark Pendergrast.

Author

Pendergrast, Mark

Publication

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.

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Description

xiv, 418 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

A history of the elite medical corps at the forefront of the world's most dangerous epidemics cites their victories over such diseases as polio, cholera, and smallpox.

Subject

• Centers for Disease Control (U.S.)
• Centers for Disease Control (U.S.). Epidemic Intelligence Service
• Centers for Disease Control (U.S.). Epidemic Intelligence Service > Popular works
• Epidemiology
• Communicable Disease Control
• United States Government Agencies
• History, 20th Century
• Epidemiology > history
• Communicable Disease Control > history
• Epidemiology > Popular works
• Epidemiologists > United States > Popular works
• United States

Genre/Form

Popular works

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [372]-387) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Cold war, hot pathogens -- Throwing them overboard -- Killer vaccine, goat-hair anthrax, rabid bats, and staph attacks -- Pandemic flu, purple enteritis on mars, polio problems -- New discoveries and mysteries in the early sixties -- The diaspora -- Fighting pox, pandemics, and special pathogens -- Eradication escalation -- Not just infections any more -- Surveillance and containment -- Target zero -- The year of living dangerously -- Superwomen (and men) of the late seventies -- Budget wars and new plagues -- Entering the computer age -- Unexpected connections -- Emerging infections -- Rough sledding -- Approaching a new millennium -- Full circle -- Into the twenty-first century -- L'expérience fait la difference.

ISBN

• 9780151011209
• 0151011206

LCCN

^^2009029871

OCLC

• 427608850
• SCSB-10083981

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library