Epidemics and Society

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Epidemics and Society

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As seen on “60 Minutes”: a “brilliant and sobering” (Paul Kennedy, Wall Street Journal) look at the history and human costs of pandemic outbreaksThe World Economic Forum #1 book to read for context on the coronavirus outbreak"Well-written, highly entertaining and relevant. "—Financial Times, "Best Books of 2020: Readers' Choice" This sweeping exploration of the impact of epidemic diseases looks at how mass infectious outbreaks have shaped society, from the Black Death to today.

In a clear and accessible style, Frank M. Snowden reveals the ways that diseases have not only influenced medical science and public health, but also transformed the arts, religion, intellectual history, and warfare.   A multidisciplinary and comparative investigation of the medical and social history of the major epidemics, this volume touches on themes such as the evolution of medical therapy, plague literature, poverty, the environment, and mass hysteria.

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Útgefandi
Yale University Press
ISBN
9780300249149
Print ISBN
9780300192216
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
0
Höfundar
Frank M. Snowden
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2019-10-22
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
2
Afritunar takmörkun
2

Kaflar

  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface to the Paperback Edition
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 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