Facets

2004

#9652

Anthrax: A history.

2004

#9974

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

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

#9386

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

2006

#8251

Colonial pathologies: American tropical medicine, race, and hygiene in the Philippines.

2006

#9763

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

2008

#10509

Cholera and nation: Doctoring the Victorian social body.

2010

#8704

Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: Dalla peste nera ai giorni nostri.

2010

#8822

Medicine in an age of commerce and empire: Britain and its tropical colonies 1660-1830.

2012

#7891

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

2012

#8492

Plague, quarantines and geopolitics in the Ottoman empire.

An examination of Ottoman plague treatises and writers from the Black Death until 1923.

2012

#12154

The scars of Venus: A history of venereology.

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

#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

#8274

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

2015

#9859

Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South.

"The public health movement in the South began in the wake of a yellow fever epidemic that devastated the lower Mississippi Valley in 1878--a disaster that caused 20,000 deaths and financial losses of nearly $200 mill…

2016

#14068

Influenza encyclopedia: The American influenza epidemic of 1918 - 1919: A digital encyclopedia. Second edition.

ABOUT "Historians, journalists, and the public at large have long been interested in the 1918 “Spanish flu” epidemic, a dramatic chapter in American life that has spawned an impressive body of books, articles, and mul…

2017

#9691

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

2017

#9958

HIV / AIDS Collected by: National Library of Medicine, Christine Wenc, curator.

https://archive-it.org/collections/8400 HIV/AIDS "A collection of websites selected and archived by the National Library of Medicine on biomedical, clinical, cultural, and social aspects of HIV/AIDS in the early 21st …

2020

#12013

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