Epidemics and pandemics : their impacts on human history
Hays (history, Loyola U. Chicago) describes, in a style accessible to high school students and up, the history of 50 epidemics in world history, from an unspecified disease that swept through Athens in 430-427 BC to a number of epidemics still plaguing the world today. Each chapter is organized into sections describing "when and where," historical significance, background, how it was understood at the time, responses, and unresolved historical issues. Each chapter also includes references and suggested additional readings. Also includes information on Aedes Aegypti, American Indians, antibiotics, Asia, asymptomatic carriers, bleeding, blood, burial considerations, children, China, contagion, diet, dysentery, economic circumstances, environmental considerations, fleas, flies, germ theory, will of gods, Waldemar Haffkine, humors, immunity, infants, inoculations, Islam, Edward Jenner, Robert Koch, laws, miasmas, microorganisms, migration, military affairs, morality, morbidity, mortality, mosquitoes, New York, pilgrimages, political impact, population levels, poverty, public health policies, quarantines, race, rehydration, religion, rodents, sanitation, slavery, social conditions, syphilis, trade considerations, transportation, rural areas, urban areas, vaccinations, venereal diseases, Vibrio cholerae, virgin soil infection, water contamination, women, World Health Organization, World War I, Yersinia pestis, etc
History
1 online resource (xii, 513 pages) : illustrations, maps
9781851093694, 9781851096589, 9781851096633, 9781280711503, 1851093699, 1851096582, 1851096639, 1280711507
606929770
Preface
Epidemic in Athens, 430-427 B.C.E
Malaria in ancient Rome
Plague of the Antonines
First plague pandemic, 541-747
Smallpox epidemic in Japan, 735-737
Leprosy in medieval Europe
Second plague pandemic, 1346-1844
"French disease" in sixteenth-century Europe
Epidemics in sixteenth-century America
Epidemics and the thirty years' war, 1618-1648
Plague in Italian cities, 1630s
Epidemics in China, 1640-1644
Plague in London, 1665
Smallpox in Iceland, 1707-1709
Plague in Marseilles, 1720-1722
Smallpox in Boston, 1721
Smallpox in eighteenth-century Europe
Plague in Moscow, 1771
Influenza pandemic, 1781-1782
Yellow fever in Hispaniola, 1793-1804
Yellow fever in Philadelphia, 1793
First cholera pandemic, 1817-1824
Consumption in the nineteenth century
Second cholera pandemic, 1827-1835
Third cholera pandemic, 1839-1856
"Fevers" and the great famine in Ireland, 1846-1850
Typhoid fever in cities, 1850-1920
Yellow fever in New Orleans, 1853
Fourth cholera pandemic, 1863-1875
Carrion's disease in Peru, 1870-1871
Smallpox in Europe, 1870-1875
Measles in Fiji, 1875
Fifth cholera pandemic, 1881-1896
Influenza pandemic, 1889-1890
Cholera epidemic in Hamburg, 1892
Third plague pandemic, 1894-?
Sixth cholera pandemic, 1899-1923
Sleeping sickness in east central Africa, 1900-1905
Typhoid Mary's "epidemics"
Cholera epidemic in Naples, 1910-1911
Poliomyelitis in the United States, 1916
Influenza pandemic, 1918-1919
Lung cancer in the United States, mid-twentieth century
Poliomyelitis in the United States, 1945-1955
Seventh cholera pandemic, 1961-present
Aids in the United States, 1980s
Contemporary aids pandemic
The mad cow crisis and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, 1985-present
Contemporary malaria
Contemporary tuberculosis
Epilogue
Glossary