Facets

2004

#9974

The great influenza: The epic story of the greatest plague in history.

2005

#9386

Yellow Jack: How yellow fever ravaged American and Walter Reed discovered its deadly secrets.

2006

#7924

Les conquêtes de la médecine moderne en Afrique. Edited by Jean-Paul Bado.

2006

#9763

Plague, SARS, and the story of medicine in Hong Kong.

2008

#9683

Antimicrobial drugs: Chronicle of a twentieth century medical triumph.

Concerns the history of all anti-infectives, including antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, antiprotozoal and anthelminthic agents.

2009

#13711

The tainted gift: The disease method of frontier expansion.

2012

#10418

Contagion: How commerce has spread disease.

2013

#8100

In the blink of an eye: The deadly story of epidemic meningitis.

2013

#9374

Ship of death: A voyage that changed the Atlantic world.

A multi-disciplinary account from the perspectives of the history of the slave trade, the anti-slavery movement and medical history, of the voyage of the Hankey, a small British ship that circled the Atlantic in 1792-…

2014

#7624

Madness and memory: The discovery of prions- a new biological principle of disease.

Prusiner discovered prions, the agent causing scrapie in sheep and goats, mad cow disease, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.

2014

#10771

Cholera: A worldwide history.

2014

#12380

Polio wars: Sister Kenny and the golden age of American medicine

"During World War II, polio epidemics in the United States were viewed as the country's "other war at home": they could be neither predicted nor contained, and paralyzed patients faced disability in a world unfriendly…

2015

#9202

Confronting contagion: Our evolving understanding of disease.

2015

#11442

Salmonella infections, networks of knowledge, and public health in Britain, 1880-1975.

2015

#11923

The influenza pandemic in Japan, 1918-1920: The first world war between humankind and a virus. Translation by Lynne E. Riggs and Takechi Manbu.

2015

#13186

Insects, hygiene and history.

2016

#10096

Farewell to the god of plague: Chairman Mao's campaign to deworm China.

2016

#13089

The germ of an idea: Contagionism, religion, and society in Britain, 1660-1730.

"Contagionism is an old idea, but gained new life in Restoration Britain. The Germ of an Idea considers British contagionism in its religious, social, political and professional context from the Great Plague of London…

2017

#9691

Pale Rider: The Spanish flu of 1918 and how It changed the world.

2017

#13088

Contagionism catches on. Medical ideology in Britain, 1730-1800.

"This book shows how contagionism evolved in eighteenth century Britain and describes the consequences of this evolution. By the late eighteenth century, the British medical profession was divided between traditionali…

2018

#9959

CONTAGION: Historical views of diseases and epidemics.

http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/ This was the original version of this digital library. It includes commentary. It may be available through the Internet Archive, Archive-It facility or through the Wayback Machine…

2018

#10935

Reading contagion: The hazards of reading in the age of print.

2020

#12013

Continual raving: A history of meningitis and the people who conquered it.