| Description |
1 online resource (v. 1. xvii, 326 pages, v. 2. xi, 415 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 -- |
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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 -- |
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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 |
| Summary |
"Beyond their impact on public health, epidemics shape and are shaped by political, economic, and social forces. This book examines this connection, exploring key topics in the study of disease outbreaks and delving deep into specific historical and contemporary examples"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 04, 2021) |
| Subject |
Epidemics -- History
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Communicable diseases -- History
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Diseases and history.
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Communicable diseases
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Diseases and history
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Epidemics
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hays, J. N., 1938- author.
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| LC no. |
2020026561 |
| ISBN |
1440863792 |
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9781440863790 |
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