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Epidemics and Society
From the Black Death to the Present
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Frank M. Snowden
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English
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2019
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A wide-ranging study that illuminates the connection between epidemic diseases and societal change, from the Black Death to Ebola
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Frank M. Snowden is Andrew Downey Orrick Professor Emeritus of History and History of Medicine at Yale University. His previous books include The Conquest of Malaria: Italy, 1900–1962 and Naples in the Time of Cholera, 1884–1911.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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1. Introduction
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2. Humoral Medicine: The Legacy of Hippocrates and Galen
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4. Plague as a Disease
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5. Responses to Plague
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6. Smallpox before Edward Jenner
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7. The Historical Impact of Smallpox
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8. War and Disease: Napoleon, Yellow Fever, and the Haitian Revolution
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9. War and Disease: Napoleon, Dysentery, and Typhus in Russia, 1812
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10. The Paris School of Medicine
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11. The Sanitary Movement
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12. The Germ Theory of Disease
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13. Cholera
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14. Tuberculosis in the Romantic Era of Consumption
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15. Tuberculosis in the Unromantic Era of Contagion
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16. The Third Plague Pandemic: Hong Kong and Bombay
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17. Malaria and Sardinia: Uses and Abuses of History
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18. Polio and the Problem of Eradication
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19. HIV/AIDS: An Introduction and the Case of South Africa
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20. HIV/AIDS: The Experience
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21. Emerging and Reemerging Diseases
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22. Dress Rehearsals for the Twenty-First Century: SARS and Ebola
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Notes
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Selected Bibliography
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Index
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eBook published on:
October 22, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9780300249149
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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512
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40 b-w illus.
