Epidemics and pandemics. Volume 1 : from ancient plagues to modern-day threats / Joseph Patrick Byrne, J. N. Hays.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hays, J. N., 1938- author.

Byrne, Joseph P., author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epidemics--History.

Epidemics.

Communicable diseases--History.

Communicable diseases.

Diseases and history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 volumes) : illustrations

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2021]

Summary:

From the Black Death that ravaged Europe in the 14th century to the influenza pandemic following World War I to the novel strain of coronavirus that made "social distancing" the new normal, wide-scale disease outbreaks have played an important role throughout human history. In addition to the toll they take on human lives, epidemics have spurred medical innovations, toppled governments, crippled economies, and led to cultural revolutions. Epidemics and Pandemics: From Ancient Plagues to Modern-Day Threats provides readers with a holistic view of the terrifying--and fascinating--topic of epidemics and pandemics. In Volume 1, readers will discover what an epidemic is, how it emerges and spreads, what diseases are most likely to become epidemics, and how disease outbreaks are tracked, prevented, and combated. They will learn about the impacts of such modern factors as global air travel and antibiotic resistance, as well as the roles played by public health agencies and the media. Volume 2 offers detailed case studies that explore the course and lasting significance of individual epidemics and pandemics throughout history.

Contents:

v. 1. Introduction

Part 1: The fundamentals. 1. A look inside : pathogens and the human body. The types of pathogens that cause infectious disease ; The human body fights back : the immune system, resistance, and immunity ; The damage that pathogens can cause inside the human body ; Various symptoms : the signs on the outside

2. Gateways for pathogens : sources, hosts, vectors, and contracting disease. Infectious diseases : reservoirs, hosts, and pathogen sources ; "Catching diseases" : how microscopic pathogens enter the human body ; Parasitic worms and disease

3. Outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics. Outbreak : disease occurring within limited populations ; Epidemic : when disease spreads beyond limited populations ; Pandemic : beyond an epidemic in space, severity, and duration

4. Confronting infectious disease : before germ theory. Theories of health and disease before the discovery of germs ; Campaigns against plague before the discovery of germs ; Nineteenth-century medical achievements before the discovery of germs

5. Battles against infectious disease : triumph of germ theory. Discovering and subduing the germ : major medical advances from Louis Pasteur to unravelling the genome ; Major public health advances of the twentieth century ; A world war against disease : international organization and efforts

6. Epidemic disease in the twenty-first century. Perfect storms : social, economic, and political conditions conducive to disease ; Continuing diseases ; New and emerging diseases ; Reemerging diseases ; Frontiers of medicine : trends in prevention and treatment ; Some contemporary global public health initiatives

Part 2: Epidemics and human society. 7. Economics and epidemic disease. Economics and the spread of pathogens ; Wealth, poverty, and disease ; Economic effects of epidemics ; State economic intervention in disease prevention and control

8. Governments, politics, and plagues. Plagues and governments in the premodern world ; The age of cholera and nineteenth-century international cooperation ; AIDS and the modern state in the 1980s ; Epilogue: COVID-19

9. Religion, magic, and epidemic disease. Religious causal explanations : from Apollo to Ebola ; Religious responses to disease ; Religious factors in spreading disease ; Effects of epidemic disease on religion ; Magic as cause and cure

10. War and epidemics. The gathering : mobilization, training, disease, and infection prevention ; Before the shooting starts : camp and garrison life and disease ; When the marching starts ; War, disease, and the noncombatant ; Biological warfare ; When the shooting stops

11. Colonialism, slavery, racism, and epidemic disease. Contact : initial shocks ; Slave life in the Americas ; Race, ethnicity, and disease

12. Sex and epidemic disease. Pathogens and STDs ; Historical perspectives on venereal diseases ; The sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s ; From transmission to epidemic

13. Media and epidemics from Gutenberg to AIDS. Early popular press and epidemic disease ; Emerging telecommunication and mass media ; Mass media and AIDS in the 1980s

14. Disease in the literary, visual, and performing arts. The arts and the second plague pandemic ; Tuberculosis, romanticism, and realism ; AIDS and the arts ; Fictional diseases in contemporary films and novels

v. 2. 1. Malaria in Ancient Rome

2. First plague pandemic, 541-747

3. Smallpox epidemic in Japan, 735-737

4. Leprosy in Medieval Europe

5. The Black Death begins : the second plague pandemic, 1346-1352

6. Epidemics in sixteenth-century America

7. "French disease" in sixteenth-century Europe

8. Epidemics and the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648

9. Plague in Italian cities, 1630s

10. Epidemics in China, 1635-1644

11. Plague in London, 1665

12. Plague in Marseille, 1720-1722

13. Smallpox in Boston, 1721

14. Smallpox in eighteenth-century Europe

15. Plague in Moscow, 1771

16. Yellow fever in Hispaniola, 1793-1804

17. Yellow fever in Philadelphia, 1793

18 . Epidemics in the Napoleonic Wars, 1797-1815

19. Consumption in the nineteenth century

20. First Cholera pandemic, 1817-1824

21. Second Cholera pandemic, 1827-1835

22. Third Cholera pandemic, 1839-1856

23. Typhoid fever in cities, 1850-1920

24. Yellow fever in New Orleans, 1853

25. Fourth Cholera pandemic, 1863-1875

26. Smallpox in Europe, 1870-1875

27. Measles in Fiji, 1875

28. Fifth Cholera pandemic, 1881-1896

29. Influenza pandemic, 1889-1893

30. Cholera epidemic in Hamburg, 1892

31. Third plague pandemic, 1894-?

32. Sixth Cholera pandemic, 1899-1923

33. Sleeping sickness in East Central Africa, 1900-1905

34. Typhoid Mary's "epidemics," 1906-1915

35. Pneumonic plague epidemic in Manchuria, 1910-1911

36. Cholera epidemic in Naples, 1910-1911

37. Poliomyelitis in the United States, 1916

38. Influenza pandemic, 1918-1919

39. Poliomyelitis in the United States, 1945-1955

40. Seventh Cholera pandemic, 1961-

41. Contemporary HIV/AIDS pandemic, 1980-

42. The Mad Cow crisis and transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies, 1985-

43. Contemporary Malaria

44. Contemporary Tuberculosis

45. SARS epidemic, East Asia, 2002-2003

46. "Asian flu" (H1N1) epidemic, Asia, 2009-2010

47. MERS epidemic, Middle East, 2012-?

48. Ebola virus epidemic, West Africa, 2013-2016

49. Pneumonic plague epidemic, Madagascar, 2014-2017

50. Zika virus epidemic, Latin America and the Caribbean, 2015-2017

51. Cholera epidemic, Yemen, 2017-?

52. Contemporary measles outbreaks, United States - Glossary.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

979-84-00-64704-8

979-82-16-08059-6

1-4408-6379-2

OCLC:

1158508761