Epidemics and society : from the Black Death to the present /
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Author / Creator: | Snowden, Frank M. (Frank Martin), 1946- author. |
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Imprint: | New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019] ©2019 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 582 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Open Yale courses series Open Yale courses series. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13541953 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Humoral medicine : the legacy of Hippocrates and Galen
- Overview of the three plague pandemics : 541 to ca. 1950
- Plague as a disease
- Responses to plague
- Smallpox before Edward Jenner
- The historical impact of smallpox
- War and disease : Napoleon, yellow fever, and the Haitian Revolution
- War and disease : Napoleon, dysentery, and typhus in Russia, 1812
- The Paris School of Medicine
- The sanitary movement
- The germ theory of disease
- Cholera
- Tuberculosis in the romantic era of consumption
- Tuberculosis in the unromantic era of contagion
- The third plague pandemic : Hong Kong and Bombay
- Malaria and Sardinia : uses and abuses of history
- Polio and the problem of eradication
- HIV/AIDS : an introduction and the case of South Africa
- HIV/AIDS : the experience of the United States
- Emerging and reemerging diseases
- Dress rehearsals for the twenty-first century : SARS and Ebola.