Chinese family and kinship
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Chinese family and kinship
Columbia University Press, c1979
- : pbk
Available at / 9 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Bibliography: p. 234-238
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is the story of how one brave scientist unlocked the mystery at the heart of this most feared of diseases. This discovery was made in Hong Kong at the beginning of the 20th century, during an outbreak that threatened to decimate the island and, from there, the world. A tense and frightening race was run in appalling conditions by two rival scientists: Alexandre Yersin - rigorous, solitary, cerebral - and the suave Kitasaka, unscrupulous, enigmatic, careless. Spiced with anecdotes, facts and chilling reconstructions, this investigation of the plague in the modern world brings some disturbing facts to light.
by "Nielsen BookData"