Epidemics and society : from the Black Death to the present /

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A wide-ranging study that illuminates the connection between epidemic diseases and societal change, from the Black Death to Ebola. 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 ac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Snowden, Frank M. (Frank Martin), 1946- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
Colección:Open Yale courses series.
Temas:
Epidemics > History.
Epidemics > Social aspects.
Communicable diseases > History.
Communicable diseases > Social aspects.
Epidemics > history
Maladies infectieuses > Histoire.
Maladies infectieuses > Aspect social.
Communicable diseases.
Epidemics.
Electronic books.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Humoral medicine : the legacy of Hippocrates and Galen
  • Overview of the three plague pandemics : 541 to ca. 1950
  • Plague as a disease
  • Responses to plague
  • Smallpox before Edward Jenner
  • The historical impact of smallpox
  • War and disease : Napoleon, yellow fever, and the Haitian Revolution
  • War and disease : Napoleon, dysentery, and typhus in Russia, 1812
  • The Paris School of Medicine
  • The sanitary movement
  • The germ theory of disease
  • Cholera
  • Tuberculosis in the romantic era of consumption
  • Tuberculosis in the unromantic era of contagion
  • The third plague pandemic : Hong Kong and Bombay
  • Malaria and Sardinia : uses and abuses of history
  • Polio and the problem of eradication
  • HIV/AIDS : an introduction and the case of South Africa
  • HIV/AIDS : the experience of the United States
  • Emerging and reemerging diseases
  • Dress rehearsals for the twenty-first century : SARS and Ebola.

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