Facets

1723

#1689

A letter … containing, a comparison between the mortality of the natural small pox, and that given by inoculation.

Jurin was an enthusiastic supporter of inoculation against smallpox, and proved statistically that the fatality of inoculated smallpox is very much less than the fatality of natural smallpox. This is one of the earlie…

1848

#12083

Mittheilungen über die in Oberschlesien herrschende Typhus-Epidemie.

Virchow was one of the first to identify medicine as a social science. He developed a theory of epidemics that emphasized the social circumstances permitting spread of illness. This approach has been called sociologic…

1868

#5376

Ueber den Hungertyphus und einige verwandte Krankheitsformen.

Virchow was instrumental in introducing into Germany an epidemiology based on the study of multiple factors – sociological as well as bacteriological. In the above report on the reappearance of typhus in Berlin and Ea…

1962

#7927

The cholera years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866.

Edition with new Afterword published in 1987.

1976

#9689

Plagues and peoples.

1987

#6998

And the band played on: Politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic.

Shilts, an investigative journalist, chronicled the discovery and spread of HIV / AIDS with special emphasis on government indifference and political infighting—specifically in the United States—to what was then perce…

1987

#12487

No magic bullet: A social history of venereal disease in the United States since 1880.

1992

#9264

The colonial disease: A social history of sleeping sickness in colonial Zaire, 1900-1940.

1995

#8036

The making of a social disease: Tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France.

1995

#8103

Disease and class: Tuberculosis and the shaping of modern North American society.

1997

#10030

Sex, disease, and society: A comparative history of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. Edited by Milton J. Lewis, Scott Bamber and Michael Waugh.

1999

#10031

Histories of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by Philip W, Setel, Milton J. Lewis, and Maryinez Lyons.

2001

#10091

Black death, white medicine: Bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945.

2004

#10508

Mapping the Victorian social body.

"The cholera epidemics that plagued London in the nineteenth century were a turning point in the science of epidemiology and public health, and the use of maps to pinpoint the source of the disease initiated an explos…

2004

#13690

Venereal disease, hospitals and the urban poor: London's "foul wards," 1600-1800.

2005

#10080

Must we all die? Alaska's enduring struggle with tuberculosis.

2005

#10515

Plague and fire: Battling black death and the 1900 burning of Honolulu's Chinatown.

2008

#9878

The politics of vaccination: Practice and policy in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, 1800-1874.

2008

#10509

Cholera and nation: Doctoring the Victorian social body.

2009

#10573

The plague files: Crisis management in sixteenth-century Seville.

2012

#7891

Plague, fear, and politics in San Francisco's Chinatown.

2015

#8042

Vietnamese traditional medicine: A social history.

Reception of foreign medical ideas and techniques through the case study of smallpox.

2015

#8274

Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world: The Ottoman experience, 1347-1600.

2016

#9694

The great transition: Climate, disease and society in the late-medieval world.

2021

#13373

Up against the wall: Art, activism, and the AIDS poster. Edited by Donald Albrecht and Jessica Lacher-Feldman. Medical and consulting editor William M. Valenti.

Documents the power and impact of nearly 200 examples of AIDS posters from around the world and the social activism that continues to bring awareness to a disease without vaccine or a cure. Selected from the 8000 post…

2022

#14090

The contagion of liberty: The politics of smallpox in the American revolution.

"The Revolutionary War broke out during a smallpox epidemic, and in response, General George Washington ordered the inoculation of the Continental Army. But Washington did not have to convince fearful colonists to pro…