Death in a Small Package

A Short History of Anthrax

Susan D. Jones (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2010
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-9696-5 (ISBN)

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A disease of soil, animals, and people, anthrax has threatened lives for at least two thousand years. Farmers have long recognized its lasting virulence, but in our time, anthrax has been associated with terrorism and warfare. What accounts for this frightening transformation? Death in a Small Package recounts how this ubiquitous agricultural disease came to be one of the deadliest and most feared biological weapons in the world. Bacillus anthracis is lethal. Animals killed by the disease are buried deep underground, where anthrax spores remain viable for decades or even centuries and, if accidentally disturbed, can cause new infections. But anthrax can be deliberately aerosolized and used to kill-as it was in the United States in 2001. Historian and veterinarian Susan D. Jones recounts the life story of anthrax through the biology of the bacillus; the political, economic, geographic, and scientific factors that affect anthrax prevalance; and the cultural beliefs about the disease that have shaped human responses to it.
She explains how Bacillus anthracis became domesticated, discusses what researchers have learned from numerous outbreaks, and analyzes how the bacillus came to be weaponized and what this development means for the modern world. Jones compellingly narrates the biography of this frightfully hardy disease from the ancient world through the present day.

Susan D. Jones is a veterinarian and an associate professor in the Program in the History of Science and Technology and the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. She is the author of Valuing Animals: Veterinarians and Their Patients in Modern America, also published by Johns Hopkins.

Foreword, by Charles E. Rosenberg
Preface
Introduction
1. Infectivity and Fear: Charbon and the Cursed Fields
2. Availability: Understanding the Germ of Anthrax
3. Transmission: Anthrax Enters the Factory
4. Casualty Effectiveness: War andAnthrax
5. Resistance: Anthrax, the Modern Laboratory, and the Environment
6. Detection and Verification: The Weapon and the Disease
Epilogue: Stories about Anthrax
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.12.2010
Reihe/Serie	Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease
Zusatzinfo	3 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Baltimore, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	522 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	0-8018-9696-7 / 0801896967
ISBN-13	978-0-8018-9696-5 / 9780801896965
Zustand	Neuware