Epidemics and society: from the Black death to the present

By:

Snowden, Frank M

Material type: Text

TextSeries: The open Yale coursesPublication details: Yale University Press 2019 New HeavenDescription: xvii, 582 p.: ill. Include bibliography and indexISBN:

9780300256390

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DDC classification:

614.49 S6E7

Summary: This sweeping exploration of the impact of epidemic diseases looks at how mass infectious outbreaks have shaped society, from the Black Death to today, and in a new preface addresses the global threat of COVID-19. 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. In addition to providing a historical perspective on diseases such as smallpox, cholera, and tuberculosis, Snowden examines the fallout from recent epidemics such as HIV/AIDS, SARS, and Ebola and the question of the world’s preparedness for the next generation of diseases. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300256390/epidemics-and-society

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Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Preface
Acknowledgements
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

This sweeping exploration of the impact of epidemic diseases looks at how mass infectious outbreaks have shaped society, from the Black Death to today, and in a new preface addresses the global threat of COVID-19. 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. In addition to providing a historical perspective on diseases such as smallpox, cholera, and tuberculosis, Snowden examines the fallout from recent epidemics such as HIV/AIDS, SARS, and Ebola and the question of the world’s preparedness for the next generation of diseases.

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300256390/epidemics-and-society

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