Plagues / edited by Jonathan L. Heeney and Sven Friedemann.

Contributor Heeney, Jonathan L. (Jonathan Luke), 1957- editor.

ImprintCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Descriptionxxx, 128 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm.

Note:Essays developed from the 2014 Darwin College Lecture Series. --Page ii.

Note:Ebola, the plague of 2014/2015 / Jonathan L. Heeney -- Plagues and history: frmo the Black Death to Alzheimer's disease / Christopher and Mary Dobson -- Plagues and medicine / Leszek Borysiewicz -- The nature of plagues 2013-14: a year of living dangerously / Angela Mclean -- Plagues, populations, and survival / Steven J. O'Brien -- Plagues and socioeconomic collapse / Ian Morris -- Silicon plagues / Mikko Hypponen -- The human plague / Stephen Emmott -- Plague as metaphor / Rowan Williams.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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