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050 4 _aRA649 .S66 2019
082 0 _a614.49
100 1 _aSnowden, Frank M.
245 1 0 _aEpidemics and Society :
_bFrom the Black Death to the Present.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aNew Haven :
_bYale University Press,
_c2019.
264 4 _c©2019.
300 _a1 online resource (603 pages)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aThe Open Yale Courses Series
505 0 _aCover -- 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.
520 _aA wide-ranging study that illuminates the connection between epidemic diseases and societal change, from the Black Death to Ebola.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aEpidemics-History.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aSnowden, Frank M.
_tEpidemics and Society
_dNew Haven : Yale University Press,c2019
_z9780300192216
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
830 4 _aThe Open Yale Courses Series
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5910244
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