Epidemics and pandemics
Subtitle: their impacts on human history
By: J. N. Hays.
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Subjects: Epidemics -- History.; Diseases and history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Epidemic in Athens, 430-427 B.C; title: Malaria in ancient Rome; title: Plague of the antonines; title: First plague pandemic, 541-747; title: Smallpox epidemic in Japan, 735-737; title: Leprosy in medieval Europe; title: Second plague pandemic, 1346-1844; title: "French disease" in sixteenth century Europe; title: Epidemics in sixteenth century America; title: Epidemics and the thirty years' war, 1618-1648; title: Plague in Italian cities, 1630s; title: Epidemics in China, 1640-1644; title: Plague in London, 1665; title: Smallpox in Iceland, 1707-1709; title: Plague in Marseilles, 1720-1722; title: Smallpox in Boston, 1721; title: Smallpox in eighteenth century Europe; title: Plague in Moscow, 1771; title: Influenza pandemic, 1781-1782; title: Yellow fever in Hispaniola, 1793-1804; title: Yellow fever in Philadelphia, 1793; title: First cholera pandemic, 1817-1824; title: Consumption in the nineteenth century; title: Second cholera pandemic, 1827-1835; title: Third cholera pandemic, 1839-1856; title: "Fevers" and the great famine in Ireland, 1846-1850; title: Typhoid fever in cities, 1850-1920; title: Yellow fever in New Orleans, 1853; title: Fourth cholera pandemic, 1863-1875; title: Carrin's disease in peru, 1870-1871; title: Smallpox in europe, 1870-1875; title: Measles in fiji, 1875; title: Fifth cholera pandemic, 1881-1896; title: Influenza pandemic, 1889-1890; title: Cholera epidemic in Hamburg, 1892; title: Third plague pandemic, 1894-?; title: Sixth cholera pandemic, 1899-1923; title: Sleeping sickness in east central Africa, 1900-1905; title: Typhoid Mary's "epidemics"; title: Cholera epidemic in Naples, 1910-1911; title: Poliomyelitis in the United States, 1916; title: Influenza pandemic, 1918-1919; title: Lung cancer in the United States, mid-twentieth century; title: Poliomyelitis in the United States, 1945-1955; title: Seventh cholera pandemic, 1961-present; title: Aids in the United States, 1980s; title: Contemporary aids pandemic; title: The mad cow crisis and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, 1985-present; title: Contemporary malaria; title: Contemporary tuberculosis; title: Epilogue; title: Glossary.