Streptococcus Group a (Deadly Diseases and Epidemics) - Softcover

Smith, Tara C.; Alcamo, I. Edward

9780791083468: Streptococcus Group a (Deadly Diseases and Epidemics)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791083462 ISBN 13: 9780791083468

Publisher: Chelsea House Pub, 2004

Discusses the bacterium that causes a range of diseases including scarlet fever, strep throat, and the "flesh-eating disease," and examines the ongoing medical battle against group A streptococci.

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About the Author:

Tara Smith is Professor of philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of Moral Rights and Political Freedom and Viable Values: A Study of Life as the Root and Reward of Morality, and has contributed to such journals as The Journal of Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly, Social Philosophy and Policy, and Law and Philosophy.

Review:

"Each holds almost 150 pages of information charting not only the world history of the disease, but the changes it effected on world society during its course. From the disease's progress to the various efforts to cure and control it, these are intriguing documentaries."

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