Epidemics and society : from the Black Death to the present /

Epidemics and society : from the Black Death to the present /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Snowden, Frank M. (Frank Martin), 1946- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
Series:Open Yale courses series.
Subjects:
Epidemics > History.
Epidemics > Social aspects.
Communicable diseases > History.
Communicable diseases > Social aspects.
Epidemics > history.
Communicable Diseases > history.
Social Change > history.
Ebooks.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.