Twelve diseases that changed our world /
Irwin W. Sherman
- Washington, DC : ASM Press, 2007
- ix, 219 p. ; 23 cm.
The legacy of disease : porphyria and hemophilia -- The Irish potato blight -- Cholera -- Smallpox : the speckled monster -- Bubonic plague -- Syphilis : the great pox -- Tuberculosis : the people's plague -- Malaria -- Yellow fever : the saffron scourge -- The great influenza -- AIDS : the 21st century plague