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Disease and history / by Cartwright, Frederick F.(Frederick Fox),1909-2001.(CARDINAL)713229; Biddiss, Michael D.(Michael Denis),1942-(CARDINAL)721385;
Bibliography: pages 239-242.
Subjects: Diseases and history.; Medicine;
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Disease and history / by Cartwright, Frederick F.(Frederick Fox),1909-2001.(CARDINAL)713229; Biddiss, Michael D.(Michael Denis),1942-(CARDINAL)721385;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242) and indexes.
Subjects: Diseases and history.; Medicine;
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Disease and history : the influence of disease in shaping the great events of history by Cartwright, Frederick.;
Subjects: Diseases; Epidemics.; Medicine;
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Disease : the extraordinary stories behind history's deadliest killers / by Dobson, Mary J.(CARDINAL)766608;
Includes bibliographical references (page 253) and index.
Subjects: Diseases and history.; Epidemics;
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Epidemics and pandemics : their impacts on human history / by Hays, J. N.,1938-(CARDINAL)646614;
Includes bibliographical references and index.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.
Subjects: Diseases and history.; Epidemics;
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Plague, pox & pestilence / by Kiple, Kenneth F.,1939-2016.(CARDINAL)158778;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Diseases and history.; Diseases; Epidemics; Medicine;
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Napoleon's glands : and other ventures in biohistory / by Karlen, Arno.(CARDINAL)175591;
Bibliography: pages 246-265.
Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Diseases and history; Medicine;
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Art, history and antiquity of rheumatic diseases / by Appleboom, Thierry.; Bennett, J. Claude.(CARDINAL)188221; Erasmus Foundation.; Musées royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique.(CARDINAL)173954;
Bibliography: pages 116-125.NCMA Collection,
Subjects: Conference papers and proceedings.; Rheumatism in art.; Rheumatism in literature.; Rheumatism;
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Pathogenesis : a history of the world in eight plagues / by Kennedy, Jonathan,author.(CARDINAL)868392;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-278) and index.Introduction -- Paleolithic plagues -- Neolithic plagues -- Ancient plagues -- Medieval plagues -- Colonial plagues -- Revolutionary plagues -- Industrial plagues -- Plagues of poverty -- Conclusion."A sweeping look at how the major transformations in history--from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism--have been shaped not by humans but by germs. According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, collectively bending the arc of history. But in this revelatory book, professor Jonathan Kennedy argues that the myth of human exceptionalism overstates the role that we play in social and political change. Instead, it is the humble microbe that wins wars and topples empires. Drawing on the latest research in fields ranging from genetics and anthropology to archaeology and economics, Pathogenesis takes us through 60,000 years of history, exploring eight major outbreaks of infectious disease that have made the modern world. Bacteria and viruses were protagonists in the demise of the Neanderthals, the growth of Islam, the transition from feudalism to capitalism, the devastation wrought by European colonialism, and the evolution of the United States from an imperial backwater to a global superpower. Even Christianity rose to prominence in the wake of a series of deadly pandemics that swept through the Roman Empire in the second and third centuries: Caring for the sick turned what was a tiny sect into one of the world's major religions. By placing disease at the center of his wide--ranging history of humankind, Kennedy challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions about our collective past--and urges us to view this moment as another disease-driven inflection point that will change the course of history. Provocative and brimming with insight, Pathogenesis transforms our understanding of the human story."--
Subjects: Informational works.; Diseases and history.; Epidemics; Plague;
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Plagues upon the earth : disease and the course of human history / by Harper, Kyle,1979-author(CARDINAL)504014;
Introduction: microorganisms and macrohistory -- Fire. Mammals in a microbe's world ; Prometheus among the pirates ; Where the bloodsuckers aren't -- Farms. Dung and death ; The sneezing ape ; The ends of the old world -- Frontiers. Conquests and contagions ; The unification of the tropics ; Of lice and men -- Fossils. The wealth and health of nations ; Disease and global divergence ; The disinfected planet -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: checklist of major identified species of human pathogens."Plagues upon the Earth is a history of human civilization and the germs that have shaped its course. At every stage in our species' past, micro-organisms have had macro-effects on the development of human societies. Kyle Harper proposes the first history of human disease to make full use of a radical new source of evidence: pathogen genomes as a biological archive and window into prehistoric times. We can now begin to reconstruct the natural history of human disease at the molecular level, tracing the biographies of the viruses, bacteria, and protozoa that have haunted our species. The story reveals, Harper will show, the continuing importance of the deep past in determining the patterns of global divergence today. Plagues upon the Earth puts the dynamic two-way relationship between humanity and its germs in the foreground. The takeover and transformation of the planet by Homo sapiens has been the most powerful force shaping the evolution of microbial pathogens, and in turn, pathogen evolution has been a decisive influence on the destiny of human societies. From humanity's dispersal out of Africa to the rise of agriculture and complex civilizations, from the great pandemics of the medieval world to the age of global expansion and industrialization, from the modern increase in life expectancy to the ongoing threats of microbial resistance and emerging pathogens like HIV and Ebola, disease evolution has been and remains a primary, powerful, and unpredictable factor in human history. This will be the story of how we made our germs, and how our germs made the world as we know it. Harper aims to cover the entire timespan of Homo sapiens and to set the history of our species in deep perspective. The pathogens that exist today are the heirs of millions of years of evolution. Similarly, the patterns of economic development, and the roots of global inequality, have distant origins. Thus, Harper aims to bring together two bodies of literature: the history of disease and the study of geography and social development. The book is global in coverage, insisting on the importance of understanding how the tropics and temperate zones, the Old World and the New World, differ and interact throughout the course of history. Viruses, bacteria, and protozoa - in all their peculiarity and specificity - have played an enormous part in shaping the different outcomes experienced by human societies. Plagues upon the Earth combines biology, geography, and economics to understand these differences but emphasizes the central importance of evolution as a source of constant change. The past is always present in the history of disease, and the future is always unpredictable. The story continues right up to our own world. The book closes with a reflection on antibiotic resistance as a form of evolution that continues the ancient molecular antagonism between pathogens and host immune systems, and the importance of seeing this struggle in a broader environmental framework. Freedom from infectious disease remains an unachieved goal for our species, which is more interconnected than ever. The biology of infectious disease has been one of the great forces shaping the patterns of global development, but only with a sense of history - of the interplay of change, conjunction, and chance - can we begin to understand the intertwined story of human societies and their germs"--"How pathogenic microbes have been an intimate part of human history from the beginning-and how our deadliest germs and biggest pandemics are the product of our success as a speciesPlagues upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global history with insights from cutting-edge genetics, Kyle Harper explains why humanity's uniquely dangerous disease pool is rooted deep in our evolutionary past, and why its growth is accelerated by technological progress. He shows that the story of disease is entangled with the history of slavery, colonialism, and capitalism, and reveals the enduring effects of historical plagues all around us, in patterns of wealth, health, power, and inequality. He also tells the story of humanity's escape from infectious disease-a triumph that makes life as we know it possible, yet destabilizes the environment and fosters new diseases.Panoramic in scope, Plagues upon the Earth traces role of disease in the transition to farming, the spread of cities, the advance of transportation, and the stupendous increase in human numbers. Harper offers a new interpretation of humanity's path to control over infectious disease-one where rising evolutionary threats constantly push back against human progress, and where the devastating effects of modernization contribute to the great divergence between societies. The book reminds us that human health is globally interdependent-and inseparable from the well-being of the planet itself.Putting the COVID-19 pandemic in perspective, Plagues upon the Earth tells the story of how we got here as a species, and it may help us decide where we want to go"--Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-670) and index.
Subjects: Epidemics; Plague; Diseases and history.;
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