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Pandemic : (Record no. 42586)

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000 -LEADER
fixed length control field 02516cam a2200373 i 4500
001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field 2015010246
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field DLC
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20240430145731.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 150413s2016 nyua 001 0 eng
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2015010246
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780374122881
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0374122881
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency DLC
Language of cataloging eng
Transcribing agency DLC
Description conventions rda
Modifying agency DLC
042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE
Authentication code pcc
050 04 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number RA643
Item number .S52 2016
090 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED LC-TYPE CALL NUMBER (OCLC); LOCAL CALL NUMBER (OCLC)
Classification number (OCLC) (R) ; Classification number, CALL (RLIN) (NR) RA 643 .S52 2016
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Shah, Sonia.
9 (RLIN) 6275
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Pandemic :
Remainder of title tracking contagions, from cholera to ebola and beyond /
Statement of responsibility, etc Sonia Shah.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE STATEMENTS
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture New York :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux ,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture 2016.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent viii, 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
Other physical details illustrations (chiefly color) ;
Dimensions 24 cm
336 ## - CONTENT TYPE
Content Type Term text
Source rdacontent
Content Type Code txt
337 ## - MEDIA TYPE
Media Type Term unmediated
Source rdamedia
Media Type Code n
338 ## - CARRIER TYPE
Carrier Type Term volume
Source rdacarrier
Carrier Type Code nc
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Includes index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Cholera's child : the microbes' comeback -- The jump : crossing the species barrier at wet markets, pig farms, and South Asian wetlands -- Locomotion : the global dissemination of pathogens through canals, steamships, and jet airplanes -- Filth : the rising tide of feculence, from nineteenth-century New York City to the slums of Port-au-Prince and the factory farms of south China -- Crowds : the amplification of epidemics in the global metropolis -- Corruption : private interests versus public health, or, How Aaron Burr and the Manhattan Company poisoned New York City with cholera -- Blame : cholera riots, AIDS denialism, and vaccine resistance -- The cure : the suppression of John Snow and the limits of biomedicine -- The revenge of the sea : the cholera paradigm -- The logic of pandemics : the lost history of ancient pandemics -- Tracking the next contagion : reimagining our place in a microbial world.
520 0# - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Sonia Shah tracks each stage of cholera's dramatic journey from harmless microbe to world-changing pandemic, from its 1817 emergence in the South Asian hinterlands to its rapid dispersal across the nineteenth-century world and its latest beachhead in Haiti. She reports on the pathogens following in cholera's footsteps.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Communicable diseases
General subdivision Epidemiology
-- History.
9 (RLIN) 6276
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Public health surveillance.
9 (RLIN) 6277
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues.
Source of heading or term bisacsh
9 (RLIN) 6278
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology.
Source of heading or term bisacsh
9 (RLIN) 6279
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element MEDICAL / Infectious Diseases.
Source of heading or term bisacsh
9 (RLIN) 6280
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme Library of Congress Classification
Item type Books
907 ## - LOCAL DATA ELEMENT G, LDG (RLIN)
a 42586
Holdings
Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Collection code Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Source of acquisition Cost, normal purchase price Total Checkouts Total Renewals Full call number Barcode Date last seen Date last borrowed Price effective from Koha item type
  Library of Congress Classification     Non-fiction American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Main Collection 2016-08-03 Oasis Proquest 95.50 1 1 RA 643 .S52 2016 5158385 2023-12-01 2017-09-28 2016-08-03 Books
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