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Viruses, Plagues, and History by ISBN: 9780195327311Publication Date: 2009-11-02The story of viruses and humanity is a story of fear and ignorance, of grief and heartbreak, and of great bravery and sacrifice. Oldstone begins with smallpox, polio, and measles.
Deadly Companions : How microbes shaped our History by ISBN: 9780191517648Publication Date: 2007-10-01The story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. Combining tales of devastating epidemics with accessible science and fascinating history.
Influenza by ISBN: 9780822961895Publication Date: 2012-04-28In Influenza, George Dehner examines the wide disparity in national and international responses to influenza pandemics, from the Russian flu of 1889 to the swine flu outbreak in 2009.
Six Modern Plagues by ISBN: 155963992XPublication Date: 2003-09-10Discusses six new epidemics, exploring the connection between human changes to the natural environment and the appearance of West Nile virus, mad cow disease, HIV/AIDS, hantavirus, Lyme disease, a new strain of salmonella, and SARS.
Seven Modern Plagues by ISBN: 9781610914666Publication Date: 2014-02-01Walters explores the origins of seven diseases: Mad Cow Disease, HIV/AIDS, Salmonella DT104, Lyme Disease, Hantavirus, West Nile, and new strains of flu.
Diseases of Poverty by ISBN: 9781611687538Publication Date: 2015-03-22Introduction to global health -- Global health : systems, agencies, organizations, and other Stakeholders
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American Plagues by Call Number: RA650.5 .G44 2016ISBN: 9781442256507Publication Date: 2016-04-14mallpox, yellow fever, malaria, polio... now largely just unhappy history. Yet from our confrontations with these past plagues come lessons. As we struggle to understand and remedy problems like HIV/AIDS, coronary heart disease, and Ebola infection, Gehlbach shows how encounters with epidemics in the past will aid our present understanding of health and disease.
The Power of Plagues by Call Number: RA643 .S55 2006ISBN: 1555813569Publication Date: 2005-12-21The nature of plagues -- Plagues, the price of being sedentary -- Six plagues of antiquity -- An ancient plague, the black death -- A modern plague, AIDS -- Typhus, a fever plague -- Malaria, another fever plague -- King cholera -- Smallpox, the spotted plague -- Preventing plagues -- The plague protectors -- The great pox syphilis -- The people's plague: tuberculosis -- Leprosy, the striking hand of God -- Six plagues of Africa -- Plagues without germs -- Plagues on order.
Plagues, Priests, and Demons by Call Number: BV2110 .R44 2005ISBN: 9780521600507Publication Date: 2004-12-06Disease and the rise of Christianity in Europe, 150-800 C.E. -- Disease and the rise of Christianity in the New World : the Jesuit missions of colonial Mexico -
The Great Plague by Call Number: RC178.G72 E64ISBN: 9780300173819Publication Date: 2014-04-29In this intimate history of the extraordinary Black Plague pandemic that swept through the British Isles in 1665, Evelyn Lord focuses on the plague's effects on smaller towns, where every death was a singular blow affecting the entire community.
Infections and Inequalities by Call Number: RA418.5.P6 F37ISBN: 0520229134Publication Date: 2001-02-23The vitality of practice -- Rethinking "emerging infectious diseases" -- Invisible women -- The exotic and the mundane -- Culture, poverty, and HIV transmission. -- Miracles and misery: an ethnographic interlude. -- Sending sickness -- The consumption of the poor -- Optimism and pessimism in tuberculosis control -- Immodest claims of causality -- The persistent plagues.
Contagious by Call Number: RA649 .W25 2008ISBN: 9780822341284Publication Date: 2008-01-09Imagined immunities: the epidemiology of belonging -- The healthy carrier: "Typhoid Mary" and social being -- Communicable Americanism: social contagion and urban spaces -- Viral cultures: microbes and politics in the Cold War -- "The Columbus of AIDS": the invention of "Patient Zero".
Plagues and Peoples by Call Number: RA649 .M3ISBN: 0385121229Publication Date: 1977-10-11Man the hunter -- Breakthrough to history -- Confluence of the civilized disease pools of Eurasia: 500 B.C. to A.D. 1200 -- The impact of the Mongol Empire on shifting disease balances, 1200-1500 -- Transoceanic exchanges, 1500-1700 -- The ecological impact of medical science and organization since 1700.
Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues by ISBN: 9780313341014Publication Date: 2008-09-30From the Athenian flu pandemic to the Black Death to AIDS, this extensive two-volume set offers a sociocultural, historical, and medical look at infectious diseases and their place in human history from Neolithic times to the present.
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The Burdens of Disease by ISBN: 9780813548173Publication Date: 2009-10-15The western inheritance : Greek and Roman ideas about disease -- Medieval disease and responses -- The great plague pandemic -- New diseases and transatlantic exchanges -- Continuity and change : magic, religion, medicine, and science, 500-1700 -- Disease and the enlightenment -- Cholera and sanitation -- Tuberculosis and poverty -- Disease, medicine, and western imperialism -- The scientific view of disease and the triumph of professional medicine -- The apparent end of epidemics -- Disease and power. Note assigned text
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