Epidemics and society : from the Black Death to the present / Frank M. Snowden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Snowden, Frank M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epidemics--History.

Epidemics.

History.

Epidemics--Social aspects.

Communicable diseases--History.

Communicable diseases.

Communicable diseases--Social aspects.

Epidemics--history.

Medical Subjects:

Epidemics--history.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 582 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]

Summary:

A wide-ranging study that illuminates the connection between epidemic diseases and societal change, from the Black Death to Ebola. This sweeping exploration of the impact of epidemic diseases looks at how mass infectious outbreaks have shaped society, from the Black Death to today. In a clear and accessible style, Frank M. Snowden reveals the ways that diseases have not only influenced medical science and public health, but also transformed the arts, religion, intellectual history, and warfare. A multidisciplinary and comparative investigation of the medical and social history of the major epidemics, this volume touches on themes such as the evolution of medical therapy, plague literature, poverty, the environment, and mass hysteria. In addition to providing historical perspective on diseases such as smallpox, cholera, and tuberculosis, Snowden examines the fallout from recent epidemics such as HIV/AIDS, SARS, and Ebola and the question of the world's preparedness for the next generation of diseases.

Contents:

2 Humoral Medicine: The Legacy of Hippocrates and Galen p. 9

3 Overview of the Three Plague Pandemics: 541 to ca. 1950 p. 28

4 Plague as a Disease p. 40

5 Responses to Plague p. 58

6 Smallpox before Edward Jenner p. 83

7 The Historical Impact of Smallpox p. 97

8 War and Disease: Napoleon, Yellow Fever, and the Haitian Revolution p. 111

9 War and Disease: Napoleon, Dysentery, and Typhus in Russia, 1812 p. 140

10 The Paris School of Medicine p. 168

11 The Sanitary Movement p. 184

12 The Germ Theory of Disease p. 204

13 Cholera p. 233

14 Tuberculosis in the Romantic Era of Consumption p. 269

15 Tuberculosis in the Unromantic Era of Contagion p. 292

16 The Third Plague Pandemic: Hong Kong and Bombay p. 332

17 Malaria and Sardinia: Uses and Abuses of History p. 357

18 Polio and the Problem of Eradication p. 385

19 HIV/AIDS: An Introduction and the Case of South Africa p. 408

20 HIV/AIDS: The Experience of the United States p. 429

21 Emerging and Reemerging Diseases p. 448

22 Dress Rehearsals for the Twenty-First Century: SARS and Ebola p. 466.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780300192216

0300192215

OCLC:

1090007126