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Epidemics and society : from the Black Death to the present / Frank M. Snowden.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Snowden, Frank M. (Frank Martin), 1946- author.
- Series:
- Open Yale courses series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Epidemics--History.
- Epidemics.
- History.
- Epidemics--Social aspects.
- Communicable diseases--History.
- Communicable diseases.
- Communicable diseases--Social aspects.
- Epidemics--history.
- Communicable Diseases--history.
- Social Change--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Epidemics--history.
- Communicable Diseases--history.
- Social Change--history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 582 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
- System Details:
- text file
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-550) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Kathryn Faul and Joseph A. Wallace Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780300249149
- 0300249144
- Publisher Number:
- 99984422292
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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