TY  - BOOK
AU  - Snowden,Frank M.
TI  - Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present
T2  - The Open Yale Courses Series
SN  - 9780300249149
AV  - RA649 .S66  2019 
U1  - 614.49 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Epidemics-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Humoral Medicine: The Legacy of Hippocrates and Galen -- 3. Overview of the Three Plague Pandemics: 541 to ca. 1950 -- 4. Plague as a Disease -- 5. Responses to Plague -- 6. Smallpox before Edward Jenner -- 7. The Historical Impact of Smallpox -- 8. War and Disease: Napoleon, Yellow Fever, and the Haitian Revolution -- 9. War and Disease: Napoleon, Dysentery, and Typhus in Russia, 1812 -- 10. The Paris School of Medicine -- 11. The Sanitary Movement -- 12. The Germ Theory of Disease -- 13. Cholera -- 14. Tuberculosis in the Romantic Era of Consumption -- 15. Tuberculosis in the Unromantic Era of Contagion -- 16. The Third Plague Pandemic: Hong Kong and Bombay -- 17. Malaria and Sardinia: Uses and Abuses of History -- 18. Polio and the Problem of Eradication -- 19. HIV/AIDS: An Introduction and the Case of South Africa -- 20. HIV/AIDS: The Experience of the United States -- 21. Emerging and Reemerging Diseases -- 22. Dress Rehearsals for the Twenty-First Century: SARS and Ebola -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
N2  - A wide-ranging study that illuminates the connection between epidemic diseases and societal change, from the Black Death to Ebola
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5910244
ER  -