{"product_id":"epidemics-howard-phillips-9780821420287","title":"Epidemics: The Story of South Africa's Five Most Lethal Human Diseases","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the first history of epidemics in South Africa, lethal episodes that significantly shaped this society over three centuries. Focusing on five devastating diseases between 1713 and today-smallpox, bubonic plague, \"Spanish influenza,\" polio, and HIV\/AIDS-the book probes their origins, their catastrophic courses, and their consequences in both the short and long terms. The impacts of these epidemics ranged from the demographic-the \"Spanish flu,\" for instance, claimed the lives of six percent of the country's population in six weeks-to the political, the social, the economic, the spiritual, the psychological, and the cultural. Moreover, as each of these epidemics occurred at crucial moments in the country's history-such as during the South African War and World War I-the book also examines how these processes affected and were affected by the five epidemics. To those who read this book, history will not look the same again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Howard Phillips\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0821420283\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821420287\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/12\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.00h x 4.20w x 0.50d","brand":"Howard Phillips","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43994920059135,"sku":"9780821420287","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_97aed45d-0a42-45c1-8980-39e96f154b6e.jpg?v=1683332955","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/epidemics-howard-phillips-9780821420287","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}