The White Plague

Author : Frank Herbert
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429989640

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From Science fiction grandmaster Frank Herbert, creator of the Dune universe, comes this novel of bioterrorism and gendercide. What if women were an endangered species? It begins in Ireland, but soon spreads throughout the entire world: a virulent new disease expressly designed to target only women. As fully half of the human race dies off at a frightening pace and life on Earth faces extinction, panicked people and governments struggle to cope with the global crisis. Infected areas are quarantined or burned to the ground. The few surviving women are locked away in hidden reserves, while frantic doctors and scientists race to find a cure. Anarchy and violence consume the planet. The plague is the work of a solitary individual who calls himself the Madman. As government security forces feverishly hunt for the renegade scientist, he wanders incognito through a world that will never be the same. Society, religion, and morality are all irrevocably transformed by the White Plague. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : René Jules Dubos,Jean Dubos
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0813512247

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The White Plague by René Jules Dubos,Jean Dubos Pdf

DuBos et. al. examine the social aspects of the TB epidemic, along with some of the biological factors. They show how TB was romaticized, how it was portrayed as a demon coming to rob the healthy of life, and how it sparked scientific invention - in particular the stethescope. The introduction is wonderful as it lays out the basic parts of the book.

Author : James Abel
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698168930

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White Plague by James Abel Pdf

In the frozen waters of the Arctic, Marine bioterror expert Joe Rush races to save a submarine crew from a lethal threat... “The pleas for help stopped coming just after five in the morning, Washington time. The Pentagon staffers cleared for handling sensitive messages sat in horror for a moment and then tried other ways to reach the victims. Nothing worked so they called the Director, who phoned me.” In the remote, frozen waters of the Arctic Ocean, the high-powered and technically advanced submarine U.S.S. Montana is in peril. Adrift and in flames, the boat—and the entire crew—could be lost. The only team close enough to get to them in time is led by Marine doctor and bio-terror expert Joe Rush. With only thirty-six hours before the surviving crew perish, Joe and his team must race to rescue the Montana and ensure that the boat doesn’t fall into enemy hands. Because a fast-approaching foreign submarine is already en route, and tensions may explode. But that’s the least of their troubles. For the surviving sailors are not alone on the sub. Something is trapped with them. Something deadly lethal. Something that plagued mankind long ago, when it devastated the entire world. And the crew of the Montana has unknowingly set it free. Now, Joe and his team must not only find a way to save the Montana and her crew, but stop a lethal horror of apocalyptic consequence from being unleashed on all humanity.

Author : Randall M. Packard
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1989-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520909127

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White Plague, Black Labor by Randall M. Packard Pdf

Why does tuberculosis, a disease which is both curable and preventable, continue to produce over 50,000 new cases a year in South Africa, primarily among blacks? In answering this question Randall Packard traces the history of one of the most devastating diseases in twentieth-century Africa, against the background of the changing political and economic forces that have shaped South African society from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. These forces have generated a growing backlog of disease among black workers and their families and at the same time have prevented the development of effective public health measures for controlling it. Packard's rich and nuanced analysis is a significant contribution to the growing body of literature on South Africa's social history as well as to the history of medicine and the political economy of health.

Author : Miriam Aronin
Publisher : Bearport Publishing
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781936088065

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Tuberculosis by Miriam Aronin Pdf

Looks at the disease tuberculosis, its causes, how it is spread, how it affects the body, how it is prevented, and the history of its outbreaks.

Author : Henry Porter
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802160270

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Remembrance Day by Henry Porter Pdf

A terrifying plot to unleash destruction in London and a very unlikely spy from "one of our most accomplished thriller writers" (Financial Times). Constantine Lindow is waiting for his brother Eamonn outside a central London tube station when a bus turns into the street and explodes. The next day Con is arrested as the prime suspect for the bombing. Con is determined to prove his innocence, but the only way he can do that is to find the real bomber. As he digs deeper, he finds himself confronted by his own brother's secret life—and the cold-blooded killers from his past. The trail leads Con halfway across the world and back to London, where he tracks down a killer with a genius for encryption codes. Only Con can crack the code.

Author : Orhan Pamuk
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789354927522

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Nights Of Plague by Orhan Pamuk Pdf

It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingheria-the twenty-ninth state of the Ottoman Empire-located in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus. Half the population is Muslim, the other half are Orthodox Greeks, and tension is high between the two. When a plague arrives-brought either by Muslim pilgrims returning from the Mecca or by merchant vessels coming from Alexandria-the island revolts. To stop the epidemic, the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II sends his most accomplished quarantine expert to the island-an Orthodox Christian. Some of the Muslims, including followers of a popular religious sect and its leader Sheikh Hamdullah, refuse to take precautions or respect the quarantine. And then a murder occurs. As the plague continues its rapid spread, the Sultan sends a second doctor to the island, this time a Muslim, and strict quarantine measures are declared. But the incompetence of the island's governor and local administration and the people's refusal to respect the bans doom the quarantine to failure, and the death count continues to rise. Faced with the danger that the plague might spread to the West and to Istanbul, the Sultan bows to international pressure and allows foreign and Ottoman warships to blockade the island. Now the people of Mingheria are on their own, and they must find a way to defeat the plague themselves. Steeped in history and rife with suspense, Nights of Plague is an epic story set more than one hundred years ago, with themes that feel remarkably contemporary.

Author : Gabriel G. Nahas,Helene Peters
Publisher : Paul S Eriksson
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Cocaine
ISBN : 0839717008

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Cocaine by Gabriel G. Nahas,Helene Peters Pdf

Also covers the attitudes of Sigmund Freud, Albrecht Erlenmeyer, Ludwig Lewin, Hans Maier, and Timothy Leary towards cocaine.

Author : Lawrence Wright
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780593320730

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The Plague Year by Lawrence Wright Pdf

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19—its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it "A book of panoramic breadth ... managing to surprise us about even those episodes we … thought we knew well … [With] lively exchanges about spike proteins and nonpharmaceutical interventions and disease waves, Wright’s storytelling dexterity makes all this come alive.” —The New York Times Book Review From the fateful first moments of the outbreak in China to the storming of the U.S. Capitol to the extraordinary vaccine rollout, Lawrence Wright’s The Plague Year tells the story of Covid-19 in authoritative, galvanizing detail and with the full drama of events on both a global and intimate scale, illuminating the medical, economic, political, and social ramifications of the pandemic. Wright takes us inside the CDC, where a first round of faulty test kits lost America precious time . . . inside the halls of the White House, where Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger’s early alarm about the virus was met with confounding and drastically costly skepticism . . . into a Covid ward in a Charlottesville hospital, with an idealistic young woman doctor from the town of Little Africa, South Carolina . . . into the precincts of prediction specialists at Goldman Sachs . . . into Broadway’s darkened theaters and Austin’s struggling music venues . . . inside the human body, diving deep into the science of how the virus and vaccines function—with an eye-opening detour into the history of vaccination and of the modern anti-vaccination movement. And in this full accounting, Wright makes clear that the medical professionals around the country who’ve risked their lives to fight the virus reveal and embody an America in all its vulnerability, courage, and potential. In turns steely-eyed, sympathetic, infuriated, unexpectedly comical, and always precise, Lawrence Wright is a formidable guide, slicing through the dense fog of misinformation to give us a 360-degree portrait of the catastrophe we thought we knew.

Author : Frank Herbert,Bradford Dillman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:59592260

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The White Plague by Frank Herbert,Bradford Dillman Pdf

Author : Matthew Gandy,Alimuddin Zumla
Publisher : Verso
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1859846696

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The Return of the White Plague by Matthew Gandy,Alimuddin Zumla Pdf

The dramatic increase since the 1980s in the global prevalence of tuberculosis is a story of medical failure. This collection provides an international survey of current thought on the spread and control of tuberculosis, covering historical, social, political, and medical aspects.

Author : Betty MacDonald
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062672254

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The Plague and I by Betty MacDonald Pdf

“Getting tuberculosis in the middle of your life is like starting downtown to do a lot of urgent errands and being hit by a bus. When you regain consciousness you remember nothing about the urgent errands. You can’t even remember where you were going.” Thus begins Betty MacDonald’s memoir of her year in a sanatorium just outside Seattle battling the “White Plague.” MacDonald uses her offbeat humor to make the most of her time in the TB sanatorium—making all of us laugh in the process.

Author : Karel Capek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408148563

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Capek Four Plays by Karel Capek Pdf

"There was no writer like him. . . prophetic assurance mixed with surrealistic humour and hard-edged social satire: a unique combination" (Arthur Miller) This volume brings together fresh new translations of four of his most popular plays, more than ever relevant today. In R. U. R., the Robot - an idea Çapek was the first to invent - gradually takes over all aspects of human existence except procreation; The Insect Play is a satirical fable in which beetles, butterflies and ants give dramatic form to different philosophies of life; The Makropulos Case is a fantasy about human mortality, finally celebrating the average lifespan; The White Plague is a savage and anguished satire against fascist dictatorship and the virus of inhumanity.

Author : Samuel Roberts
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780807832592

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Infectious Fear by Samuel Roberts Pdf

For most of the first half of the twentieth century, tuberculosis ranked among the top three causes of mortality among urban African Americans. Often afflicting an entire family or large segments of a neighborhood, the plague of TB was as mysterious as it

Author : Edward Osgood Otis
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1016397399

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The Great White Plague, Tuberculosis by Edward Osgood Otis Pdf

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