Pandemics, plagues & public health / editor, Michael Shally-Jensen, PhD.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shally-Jensen, Michael, editor.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Defining documents in world history

Defining Documents in World History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communicable diseases--History--Sources.

Communicable diseases.

Epidemics--History--Sources.

Epidemics.

Public health--History--Sources.

Public health.

Quarantine--History--Sources.

Quarantine.

Public health surveillance--History--Sources.

Public health surveillance.

Substance abuse--History--Sources.

Substance abuse.

Armed Forces.

History.

United States--Armed Forces--Middle East--History--Sources.

United States.

Middle East.

Genre:

History.

Sources.

Physical Description:

2 volumes : black and white illustrations ; 26 cm.

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2020]

Summary:

"Plagues and pandemics are a part of global history, from the biblical "plague of locusts" to today's COVID-19 pandemic. Dealing with unchecked diseases and disasters has given rise to great human suffering and loss of life, but it has also played a significant role in shaping our societies. Advances in public health, medicine, scientific research, and even the arts have often been inspired by or required of those who have survived. This two-volume set includes content on the Black Death, smallpox, the plague, malaria, typhoid, polio, SARS, AIDS, COVID-19, and others. Documents included in Defining Documents in World History: Pandemics, Plagues & Public Health comprise political speeches, newspaper articles, medical advances, legislation, arranged chronologically. Some of the documents analyzed in this set include: --The Black Death: Two Readings 1348 -- Day the First of the Decameron 1353 -- A thankesgiving, for the decreasing, and hope of the removing of the plague; being a sermon preached at St. Pauls in London, upon the I. of Ianuary, 1636 -- A Practical Treatise of the Plague 1720 -- ANTI-INOCULATION LETTER by "W. Philanthroper," [Dr. William Douglass], Boston News-Letter, July 17-24, 1721, excerpts -- PRO-INOCULATION LETTER signed by Puritan clergymen Increase Mather, Cotton Mather, et. al The Boston Gazette, July 27-31, 1721, excerpts -- Quarantine of the Convict Ship, Surry 1814 -- National Quarantine Act 1878 -- Prize Essay: Tuberculosis as a disease of the masses and how to combat it 1901 -- THE WORK OF A CHRONIC TYPHOID GERM DISTRIBUTOR (about Typhoid Mary Mallon) 1907 -- An Army Physician on the 1918 Flu Pandemic -- History of Diptheria 1921 -- LA Times reports of pneumonic plague in 1924 -- Drinker and Shaw Develop a Mechanical Respirator 1929 -- Asian Flu Pandemic Kills Millions Worldwide 1957 -- "This Is Not a Gay Issue. This Is a Human Issue": Early AIDS Patients Recount Their Experiences with the Disease 1981 -- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) 2009 -- "The Earlier, the Better: Building Immune Defenses Against H1N1," News USA June 12, 2009 -- "Will the Coronavirus End Globalization as We Know It?", Foreign Affairs, March 2020." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

v.1. Sickness Unto Death in Early Times: Thucydides on the Athenian Plague

Requirements for a Physician

Galen, Method of Medicine

Plague of Cyprian: De Mortalitate

On Fate and Providence, from The Consolation of Philosophy

Procopius on Plague

"On Experimental Science"

The Black Death: Two Readings

Decameron

Statute of Laborers

Florentine Chronicle

Nostradamus on a Remedy for the Plague

The Charitable Pestmaster, or, The Cure of the Plague

From A Journal of the Plague Year

An Historical Account of the Small-Pox Inoculated in New England

Letters by James Oglethorpe on an Epidemic of Influenza in Savannah, Georgia, 1733

An Account of the Bilious Remitting Yellow Fever

Disease in the Industrial Era: Report on the Typhus Epidemic in Upper Silesia (1947-48)

On the Mode of Communication of Cholera

An Emigrant's Narrative; or, A Voice from the Steerage

National Quarantine Act

From How the Other Half Lives

Epidemic Diseases Act (British India, 1897)

Pure Food and Drug Act

Child Labor in the New York City Tenements

Australian Quarantine Document

Documents Relating to the Trudeau Sanitarium

Notice to Alaskan Natives Regarding Flu Containment

Plans for a Liberty Bond Parade during the 1918 Flu Pandemic

1924 Pneumonic Plague in Los Angeles

Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938

Streptomycin Experiment Notebook

On the Polio Vaccine Situation

v.2. Disease in the Modern Era: "1,112 and Counting"

ACT UP Founding Document and Speech

Retraction of Lancet Paper on MMR Vaccine and Autism

Reports Concerning the H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic

On the Spread of the Zika virus to the Americas

California's Vaccination Law

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Interview Regarding the Coronavirus

Remarks by President Trump and Vice President Pence on the Formation of the Coronavirus Task Force

COVID-19 Brings Health Disparities Research to the Forefront

Scourges of War: The First Gas Attack

The Effects of Shell Shock

An Army Physician on the 1918 Flu Pandemic

The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki:The Nature of An Atomic Explosion

Biological Weapons Convention

Substance Abuse and Public Health: The Nature and Occasions of Intemperance

Address before the Second Biennial Convention of the World Women's Christian Temperance Union

Harrison Narcotic Act

Volstead Act

Alcoholics Anonymous "Big Book"

Report of the Joint Committee of the American Bar Association and the American Medical Association on Narcotic Drugs

Special Report: Smoking and Health

Controlled Substances Act

Section 202

Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" Message to the Nation

George Bush's Address to the Nation on National Drug Control Strategy

Testimony from the 1994 Tobacco Hearings

Statement and News Release regarding Purdue OxyContin Case.

Notes:

Edition statement supplied by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Pandemics, plagues & public health

ISBN:

9781642657333

1642657336

9781642657357

1642657352

9781642657364

1642657360

OCLC:

1163634468

Publisher Number:

99986231040