1 The Human Response to Plague in Western Europe and the Middle East, 1347 to 1844 -- 2 Dark Hidden Meanings: Leprosy and Lepers in the Medieval West and in the Tropical World under the European Imperium -- 3 Smallpox in the New World and in the Old: From Holocaust to Eradication, 1518 to 1977 -- 4 The Secret Plague: Syphilis in West Europe and East Asia, 1492 to 1965 -- 5 Cholera and Civilization: Great Britain and India, 1817 to 1920 -- 6 Yellow Fever, Malaria and Development: Atlantic Africa and the New World, 1647 to 1928 -- 7 Afterword: To the Epidemiologic Transition? 269
Summary
This book will become the standard account of the way disease has transformed societies and of how the structuring of society, politics, the economy and the medical profession has shaped the spread and containment of epidemics
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 368-384) and index
