When plague strikes : the Black Death, smallpox, AIDS / by James Cross Giblin ; woodcuts by David Frampton

By:

Giblin, James Cross, 1933-2016

Contributor(s):

Frampton, David [illustrator]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Scholastic, 1995Description: 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:

0060258543 :
9780545045674
0060258640 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

614.4/9 20

LOC classification:

RA644.P7 G53 1995

Contents:

Summary: Compassionate and arresting, this exploration of three major diseases that have changed the course of history--the bubonic plague, smallpox, and AIDS--chronicles their fearsome death toll, their lasting social, economic, and political implications, and how medical knowledge and treatments have advanced as a result of the crises they have occasioned.

Item type:

Books

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	Footprints International School Library Network Toul Kork Campus TTP Secondary Non-Fiction Bookshelves	Non-Fiction	FRA 614.4/9 RA644.P7 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	FISSE01172

Compassionate and arresting, this exploration of three major diseases that have changed the course of history--the bubonic plague, smallpox, and AIDS--chronicles their fearsome death toll, their lasting social, economic, and political implications, and how medical knowledge and treatments have advanced as a result of the crises they have occasioned.

1190 Lexile

Z Raz-Plus

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Click on an image to view it in the image viewer