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Books and Diseases
For MC students in MDDS
31
History
Undergraduate 4
04/30/2015

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Term
7 Modern Plagues
Definition
Mark Jerome Walters
8 diseases including MERS
Non Fiction
Term
Spillover
Definition
David Quammen
Nipah
Non fiction
Term
The Black Death and the Transformation of the West
Definition
David Herlilhy
Plague
Historical Non fiction
Term
Cat's Cradle
Definition
Kurt Vonnegut
Ice-Nine
Fiction
Term
The Plague
Definition
Albert Camus
Plague
Fiction-Absurdist
Term
The Great Plague
Definition
Stephen Porter
Bubonic Plague
Historical Non-Fiction
Term
POX
Definition
Deborah Hayden
Syphilis
Non-fiction
Term
Scotland's Plague
Definition
Karen Jennings
Plague
Historical Non-fiction
Term
And the Band Played On
Definition
Randy Shilts
AIDS
Non-Fiction
Term
Fever Trail: In Search of the Trail for Malaraia
Definition
Mark Honighsbaum
Malaria
Non-Fiction
Term
The Hot Zone
Definition
Richard Preston
Reston Ebola
Non-fiction thriller
Term
The Great Mortality
Definition
John Kelly
Black Death
Historical Non-Fiction
Term
Year of Wonders
Definition
Geraldine Brooks
Plague
Historical "Fiction"
Term
The Colony
Definition
John Tayman
Leprosy
Historical Non-Fiction
Term
The Black Death: A Personal History
Definition
John Hatcher Plague Historical Fiction
Term
Ecodemic
Definition
Humans are the cause of continuation and spread of disease
Term
MERS
Definition
Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome
Term
Viral Spillover
Definition
When a zoonotic disease transfers from animals to humans
Term
Malthusian Crisis/Deadlock
Definition
the population in a given area exceeds its food supply and experiences a mass starvation
Term
Prions
Definition
a small infectious particle composed of abnormally folded protein that causes progressive neurodegenerative conditions
Term
Absurdism
Definition
The belief that human beings exist in a purposeless, chaotic universe
Term
Balance of Humors
Definition
Keeping yellow bile, phlegm, blood, and black phlegm in a balance
Term
AIDS
Definition
Acquired Immune Deficiency Disorder
Term
Quinine
Definition
A potential treatment for Malaria that came from a tree
Term
Filoviruses
Definition
Family of disease that Ebola came from
Term
Quarantine
Definition
Keeping something isolated to prevent the spread of disease
Term
Herbal medicine
Definition
Using herbs and plants in order to treat illness
Term
Flagellation
Definition
Beating yourself with a cat o nine tails or something similar to do repentence
Term
Time Travelers Guide to Medieval England
Definition
Ian Mortimer
Historical Non-Fiction
Buttons/Fashion
Plague/Leprosy/TB
Term
In the Wake of the Plague
Definition
Norman Canter
Symptoms and origins of plague
Non-Fiction
Term
Scourge
Definition
Jonathan B. Tucker
Bio-terrorism
Smallpox
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