Professor Sherman, born on the Lower East Side of New York on Feb.12, 1933, grew up in the South Bronx.
His 2 most popular ASM titles were Twelve Diseases that Changed the World and Power of Plagues, both of which made a big impact by educating generations about pathogenic microbes and sparking interest in microbiology. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, and a prolific author of ASM publications. Sherman, Professor Emeritus at the University of California (Riverside), an educator and a malaria researcher for more than 50 years, died on Jan. Despite the challenges that a major epidemic presents, Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World also details various past successes in which diseases were brought under control and social disorder was minimized.Irwin W. Whether attempts to control outbreaks were successful or not, lessons can be learned that are crucial for disease containment today.Most significantly, this book explains the lessons learned from attempts to contain past disease outbreaks and how that knowledge can be utilized in the future. Crucial to this examination is exploring how past experience can help us to deal effectively with coming plagues.
Historical perspectives on these diseases will be indispensable for a better understanding of how we and our forebears survived the onslaught of plagues and how we might avoid their devastating consequences in the future. Examining hemophilia, blight, tuberculosis, cholera, smallpox, bubonic plague, influenza, malaria, yellow fever, syphilis, porphyria, and AIDS, this book not only covers the diseases' histories but also addresses public health responses and societal upheavals. In a sweeping, thoughtful account, Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World considers the history of twelve important diseases: their impact, their consequences, their costs, and the lessons learned. From the fourteenth-century plague to HIV/AIDS today, diseases have fundamentally altered the shape of society, politics, and culture. Diseases have significantly shaped the course of the world's history.
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