Disease in Evolution:  Global Changes and Emergence of Infectious Diseases Edited by Mary E. Wilson, Richard Levins, and Andrew Spielman (Harvard School of Public Health). Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences:  New York. 1994. 503 pp. $145.00. ISBN 0-89766-876-6.

1996 ◽  
Vol 118 (17) ◽  
pp. 4226-4226
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
New York ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
York Academy ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
School Of Public Health ◽  
Richard Levins ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Harvard School

Control of Communicable Diseases in Man

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-152
Author(s):  
SAMUEL L. KATZ
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Preventive Medicine ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
American Public Health Association ◽  
Communicable Disease Control ◽  
School Of Public Health ◽  
Health Association ◽  
Harvard School

That a volume achieves its tenth edition and its fiftieth anniversary may be accepted as highly suggestive evidence of its value and popularity. A brief, or more leisurely, reading of the 1965 version of this handbook quickly convinces one of the great service rendered its readers by the editors. Dr. John E. Gordon, Emeritus Professor of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, and his Committee on Communicable Disease Control of the American Public Health Association present succinctly and lucidly the pertinent and current material in more than one hundred fifty infectious diseases, in a paperback pocket-size book.

Postscript

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-132
Author(s):  
Stephen Hugh-Jones
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New York ◽  
Recurrent Events ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
York Academy ◽  
American Museum ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
American Tropics ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The previous paper was first published in 1982, when ethnoastronomy was still in its infancy. It appeared in Ethnoastronomy and Archaeoastronomy in the American Tropics, Tony Aveni and Gary Urton’s edited proceedings of an international conference held at the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium in New York under the auspices of the New York Academy of Sciences. Aveni and Urton were true pioneers who opened up a new interdisciplinary field of research that brought together astronomers, anthropologists, archaeologists, historians and others, all interested in astronomical knowledge amongst contemporary indigenous societies, in how buildings, settlements and archaeological monuments were aligned with recurrent events in the sky, and in how such alignments matched up with astronomical information contained in ancient codices and other historical documents and in contemporary ethnographic accounts.

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