Summary of Roy Porter's Blood and Guts

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Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The history of medicine is far from a simple tale of triumphal progress. Disease is a product of society, and civilization brings not just discontents but diseases.
#2 The human race was colonized by pathogens when it moved out of Africa. These included parasitic worms and insects, as well as micro-organisms such as bacteria, viruses, and protozoans.
#3 The transition from nomadic to Neolithic society brought about by the advent of agriculture gave rise to many diseases that were prevalent in settlements. The scales of health tipped unfavorably, with infections worsening and vitality declining.
#4 The beginning of the era of catastrophic epidemics was the spread of cities and trade in the Old World. With the influx of rural surpluses, as well as long-distance migrants who brought new diseases with them, towns never replaced their populations naturally.

Sujets

• Médecine
• Médecine Générale
• Colonisation
• Medical
• History

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 26 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822523319
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Roy Porter's Blood and Guts
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The history of medicine is far from a simple tale of triumphal progress. Disease is a product of society, and civilization brings not just discontents but diseases.

#2

The human race was colonized by pathogens when it moved out of Africa. These included parasitic worms and insects, as well as micro-organisms such as bacteria, viruses, and protozoans.

#3

The transition from nomadic to Neolithic society brought about by the advent of agriculture gave rise to many diseases that were prevalent in settlements. The scales of health tipped unfavorably, with infections worsening and vitality declining.

#4

The beginning of the era of catastrophic epidemics was the spread of cities and trade in the Old World. With the influx of rural surpluses, as well as long-distance migrants who brought new diseases with them, towns never replaced their populations naturally.

#5

The first recorded bubonic plague outbreak occurred in the Roman Empire in ad 540. The plague of Justinian originated in Egypt in ad 540, and two years later it blitzed Constantinople and massacred a quarter of the population of the eastern Mediterranean.

#6

The first epidemic to strike the New World was swine influenza, which spread from Hispaniola to the Caribbean islands in 1493. The Spanish adventurer Cortés attacked the main Aztec city, Tenochtitlán, with just 300 Europeans and some allies in 1521.

#7

The first disease that Columbus brought back from the Americas was syphilis, which spread like wildfire throughout Europe. It was typical of the new plagues of an era of disturbance and migrations.

#8

Cholera is a disease that first appeared in 1816, and has continued to spread throughout the world ever since. It first appeared in London in 1832, and has continued to spread throughout Europe and North America.