Foreword

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. CONTENTS xiii
5. PART I: THE BACKGROUND
6. 1. A Menacing Natural Environment 1
7. 2. Public-Health Administration 16
8. PART II: THE FIVE EPIDEMICS
9. 3. Typhus and Smallpox: Partners in Death (1761-1762) 49
10. 4. Inoculation: Rejected Lifesaver (1779-1780) 56
11. 5. Sickness in a Time of Famine (1784-1787) 70
12. 6. Smallpox: Word of Terror (1797-1798) 86
13. 7. The Year of Mysterious Fevers (1813) 157
14. PART III: THE CYCLE OF SICKNESS
15. 8. Conclusions 185
16. Bibliography 201
17. Index 215