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9780801896965 Academic Inspection Copy

Death in a Small Package

A Short History of Anthrax
  • ISBN-13: 9780801896965
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Susan D. Jones
  • Price: AUD $67.99
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  • Local release date: 14/12/2010
  • Format: Hardback (216.00mm X 140.00mm) 352 pages Weight: 522g
  • Categories: History of medicine [MBX]
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A disease of soil, animals, and people, anthrax has threatened lives for at least two thousand years. Farmers have long recognised its lasting virulence. 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 affected anthrax prevalence; 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 analyses how the bacillus came to be weaponised 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.

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

""This history of anthrax describes the bacteria's transformation from agricultural disease to biological weapon.""

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