EPIDEMIC! explores the world of infectious disease with essays by Nobel Prize-winning experts, profiles of scientists and researchers, and case studies. Leaders of organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control cover topics from controlling outbreaks and the emergence of new diseases to the problem of drug resistance. Individual case studies explore disease around the world, including the work of Doctors Without Borders, the cultural dimension of malaria, solving the riddle of cholera, and the race to find the AIDS virus.

Published to coincide with the American Museum of Natural History's exciting new traveling exhibit, this book illustrates the important issues of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention throughout history and across cultures with more than eighty photographs and images. A resource section includes lists of organizations and Web sites, an annotated bibliography, and a glossary. Examining infectious disease from a natural history perspective, EPIDEMIC! allows us to understand one of the most critical issues of the coming millennium.

Published by The New Press, 1999.
Available from the American Museum of Natural History. Paperback, $19.95, ISBN 1-56584-546-3
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