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"Plagues upon the Earth is a history of human civilization and the germs that have shaped its course. At every stage in our species' past, micro-organisms have had macro-effects on the development of human societies. Kyle Harper proposes the first history of human disease to make full use of a radical new source of evidence: pathogen genomes as a biological archive and window into prehistoric times. We can now begin to reconstruct the natural history...
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Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
c2001
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A combination of folklore and medicine brings to life a shocking tradition of digging up the bodies of loved ones to save the living, from 1790 to today, and details how this tradition was passed down through generations by people who were burdened with unexplainable illnesses that believed they could heal themselves
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Bloomsbury Children's Books, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
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"This book delves into several illnesses that have infected humans and affected civilizations. Each chapter explores the history of a specific disease, detailing the symptoms, cures, and medical breakthroughs that it spawned"--
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