1. Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. 1. Introduction 1
7. 2. Humoral Medicine: The Legacy of Hippocrates and Galen 9
8. 4. Plague as a Disease 28
9. 5. Responses to Plague 58
10. 6. Smallpox before Edward Jenner 83
11. 7. The Historical Impact of Smallpox 97
12. 8. War and Disease: Napoleon, Yellow Fever, and the Haitian Revolution 111
13. 9. War and Disease: Napoleon, Dysentery, and Typhus in Russia, 1812 140
14. 10. The Paris School of Medicine 168
15. 11. The Sanitary Movement 184
16. 12. The Germ Theory of Disease 204
17. 13. Cholera 233
18. 14. Tuberculosis in the Romantic Era of Consumption 269
19. 15. Tuberculosis in the Unromantic Era of Contagion 292
20. 16. The Third Plague Pandemic: Hong Kong and Bombay 332
21. 17. Malaria and Sardinia: Uses and Abuses of History 357
22. 18. Polio and the Problem of Eradication 385
23. 19. HIV/AIDS: An Introduction and the Case of South Africa 408
24. 20. HIV/AIDS: The Experience 429
25. 21. Emerging and Reemerging Diseases 448
26. 22. Dress Rehearsals for the Twenty-First Century: SARS and Ebola 466
27. Notes 507
28. Selected Bibliography 523
29. Index 551