Rats, Lice and History (A Stdy in Biography)
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (919 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B007HQ3VAQ |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 301 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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A one-of-a-kind history of medicine ealovitt The copy of "Rats, Lice, and History" that I own was published in 1963, and this was the 33rd time it had been reissued since first appearing in 1934. I can't imagine Dr. Zinsser's grumpily discursive, masterfully written, and ultimately profound biography of typhus fever ever going completely out of print. Stylistically the only work I can compare it to is Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Where Gibbon occasionally dipped his pen in vinegar and excoriated the Christians, Zinsser dips his pen in hydrochloric acid and savages a. A lucid, accurate, and surprsingly funny look at plague. A Customer Zinsser's book is hysterical (as well as an extraordinarily scholarly, lucid and well-written) review of plagues through history. It is also extremely interesting from the standpoint of science, as Zinsser speculates on certain bacteria and epidemiologies IN 1934. Zinsser's probably politically-incorrect comments about how No Wonder There Is So Much Jew-Baiting - The Hebrew God was a Particularly Vicious and Vengeful Deity Who Went About Smiting Enemies of the Jews in the Hinder Regions, and the Jews Weren't Such Lilies In Their Dealings Wit. "nsight, Insight, Insight (with Apologies to "Location, .)"" according to J. B. Potter. In an apparent effort to explain not ony typhus, but epidemic disease generally, to the educated lay reader, Zinsser has gone one better. By explaining the infection mechanism and the organism life cycle, he introduces cause and effect logic and scientific thought (if not scientific method) with an elegant case study. Here, in his simple case study, one can learn that (not so obvious) causes and (powerful) effects need not appear near one another in either space or time. Observing the systemic effects in the typhus life cycle offers insight
Rats, Lice and History (A Stdy in Biography) book has been released since 0000-00-00. Rats, Lice and History (A Stdy in Biography) are written by Hans Zinsser and it has 301 of pages on paperback.