While the eradication of smallpox has long been documented, not many know the Chinese roots of this historic achievement. In this revelatory study, Mary Augusta Brazelton examines the PRC's public ...

Simply, and with great humanity, The Eradication of Smallpox tells the story of smallpox - it's origins, the horror of the disease, and the millions of people killed or disfigured by it. During the...

Here's an interesting revelation ... during the plague of Athens in 430 BC, the Greeks realized that people who had previously survived smallpox did not contract the disease a second time. In fact,...

Island Southeast Asia was once a thriving region, and its products found eager consumers from China to Europe. Today, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia are primarily exporters of their surpl...

Vaccinating Britain explores how the British public has played a central role in the development of vaccination policy since the Second World War. Using government sources, newspapers, internet arc...

　　A “brilliant and sobering” (Paul Kennedy, Wall Street Journal) look at the history and human costs of pandemic outbreaks   　　As seen on “60 Minutes”   　　The World Economic Forum #1 book to ...

Mary Guinan, PhD, MD (INCLINE VILLAGE, NV), is the founding dean emerita of the School of Public Health at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She was the first woman to serve as the chief scienti...

John Fabian Witt is the Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law and History at Yale, where he serves as Head of Davenport College. He is author of the Bancroft Prize-winning Lincoln’s Code: The Laws o...

D. A. Henderson, MD was professor of medicine and public health at the University of Pittsburgh and a distinguished scholar at the Center for Biosecurity in Baltimore, as well as former dean of the...

Smallpox was a much feared disease until modern times, responsible for many deaths worldwide and reaching epidemic proportions amongst the British population in the seventeenth and eighteenth centu...

青春美麗只有一次，臉上卻掛著難看的痘痘， 彩色的人生頓時變成黑白，真是令人煩惱不堪。 怎樣妥善處理這些小痘子，還我最好的面目呢？ 作者簡介 高橋日出彥 　　1920年生於日本北海道。1951年醫學博士畢業。1953年東京醫科大學助理教授。1964年組織開設藥理中央研究所，針對神經藥理學的研究發展。1965年研究髮毛劑、強身藥品。1985年成立VITABONA（維它波納）醫學諮詢中心院長。19...