Plague : a story of science, rivalry, and the scourge that won't go away / Edward Marriott.
| Author/creator |
Marriott, Edward, 1966- |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Edition | 1st American ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : Metropolitan Books, 2003. |
| Description | 302 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Uniform title | Plague race |
| Abstract | In this recounting of medical and human history, Marriott takes us back to Hong Kong in the summer of 1894, when a diagnosis of plague brought two top scientists to the island--Alexandre Yersin, a lone, maverick French bacteriologist, and his eminent rival, the Japanese Shibasaburo Kitasato. Marriott interweaves his narrative of their competition to discover the plague's source with scenes of the scourge's persistence: California in 1900, when plague arrived in the United States; Surat, India, in 1994, where torrential floods drowned millions of rats, causing the worst outbreak in seventy years; and New York City, some time in the future, where there is a rat for every human being, a diminishing budget for pest control, and an emerging strain of plague that is resistant to antibiotics.--From publisher description. |
| General note | Originally published: The plague race : United Kingdom : Picador, 2002. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-292) and index. |
| Acquisitions source | Laupus- Robert W. Cihak History of Medicine Collection. |
| LCCN | 2002026325 |
| ISBN | 0805066802 |
| ISBN | 9780805066807 |
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| Laupus | Books - Stacks | WC 350 M359P 2003 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |