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1985

#12147

El amor en los tiempos de cólera.

"Set in a country on the Caribbean coast of South America, the story ranges from the late nineteenth century to the early decades of our own, tracing the lives of three people and their entwined fates. And yet, at fir…

1986

#9331

Evidence for human infection with an HTLV III/LAV-like virus in Central Africa, 1959.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Nahmias, Weiss, Yao...Kanki, Essex. The authors presented evidence for the first or earliest infection with HIV in a human. This paper reported on a patient from Kinshasa, Za…

1986

#11323

Medicine and American growth, 1800-1860.

"The interconnections between population increase, migration and immigration on the one hand, and disease and the development of medicine on the other in antebellum America are brilliantly presented" (publisher)

1986

#11851

Plague and the poor in Renaissance Florence.

"This book uses Florentine death registers to show the changing character of plague from the first outbreak of the Black Death in 1348 to the mid-fifteenth century. Through an innovative study of this evidence, Profes…

1987

#10557

The AIDS History Project.

https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/aids/ "In 1987, the Archives & Special Collections initiated, in collaboration with the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society (GLBHT HS) and University of Califor…

1987

#12107

Death and disease in Southeast Asia: Explorations in social, medical, and demographic history. Edited by Norman G. Owen.

1989

#10340

Cancer mapping, edited by Peter Boyle, Calum S. Muir, and Ekkehard Grundmann.

The first chapter, by G. M. Howe is "Historical evolution of disease mapping in general and specifically of cancer mapping." The book as a whole discusses the wide range of cancer maps and atlases in U.S., Europe and …

1989

#11924

America's forgotten pandemic: The influenza of 1918.

First published as Epidemic and peace 1918, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976. New edition, 2003.

1990

#6994

History of AIDS. Emergence and origin of a modern pandemic. Translated by Russell C. Maulitz and Jacalyn Duffin.

1990

#8759

Expectations of life: A study in the demography, statistics, and history of world mortality.

1991

#10036

Poisons of the past: Molds, epidemics, and history.

1991

#10984

Plague: A story of smallpox in Montreal.

1991

#12110

The geography and mortality of the 1918 influenza pandemic.

A summary of the international impact of the 1918 pandemic, its movement around the globe, and mortality estimates for various countries.

1992

#8005

Enfermedad y sociedad en la crisis colonial del antiguo régimen: Nueva Granada en el tránsito del siglo XVIII al XIX, las epidemias de viruelas.

1993

#6963

The Cambridge world history of human disease. Edited by Kenneth F. Kiple [and 12 co-editors].

An encyclopedic world history of disease, incorporating a geographic approach.

1993

#8811

Colonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.

An authoritative account of the way that medicine was practiced in India in adaptation to the situation faced by physicians and the state in India, focusing on three major epidemic diseases: smallpox, cholera plague.

1994

#10084

The health of Native Americans: Towards a biocultural epidemiology.

1994

#10880

Identification of herpesvirus-like DNA sequences in AIDS-associated Kaposi's sarcoma.

Dated December 16, 1994. Order of authorship in the original paper was Chang, Cesarman, Pessin,...Moore. The authors reported a new human herpesvirus associated with Kaposi's sarcoma, and gave it the descriptive name …

1995

#8714

Quantification and the quest for medical certainty.

1995

#8715

Trust in numbers: The pursuit of objectivity in science and public life.

1995

#10083

Aboriginal health in Canada: Historical, cultural, and epidemiological perspectives.

Revised second edition, same publisher, 2006.

1995

#10881

Detection of herpesvirus-like DNA sequences in Kaposi's sarcoma in patients with and those without HIV infection.

Dated May 4, 1995. Order of authorship in the original publication was Moore, Chang. That the virus causing Kaposi's sarcoma appeared in healthy as well as HIV patients suggested that this virus causes cancer only in …

1995

#11795

Encyclopedia of plague and pestilence.

1996

#9235

The structure of plagues and pestilences in early modern Europe. Central Europe, 1560-1640.

"The most in-depth study ever undertaken of how plague and other infectious diseases affected populations in Central Europe between 1560 and 1640. Based on quantitative data gleaned from over 800 parish registers, the…

1996

#10882

Human herpesvirus 8 Is present in the lymphoid system of healthy persons and can reactivate in the course of AIDS.

Dated June 22, 1995. Order of authorship in the original paper was Bigoni, Dolcetti, de Lellis....By this time Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) was also known as human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8). The authors wr…

1996

#12106

Pandemic influenza 1700-1900: A study in historical epidemiology.

1997

#11822

The decline of infant and child mortality: The European experience, 1750-1990.

1997

#12128

U.S. Vital Statistics System: Major activities and developments, 1950-95. From the Center for Disease Control and Prevention/ National Center for Health Statistics. Includes reprint of "History and organization of the Vital Statistics system" to 1950.

Appendix two is a reprint of "History and organization of the Vital Statistics System" by A. M. Hetzel, that first appeared in Vital Statistics of the United States I (1950) 1-19. Digital facsimile from cdc.gov at thi…

1998

#7960

Viruses, plagues & history: Past, present, and future.

Revised and updated edition, 2010.

1998

#9375

Deciphering global epidemics: Analytical approaches to the disease records of world cities, 1888-1912.

1998

#10574

Born to die: Disease and New World conquest, 1492-1650.

"The biological mingling of the previously separated Old and New Worlds began with the first voyage of Columbus. The exchange was a mixed blessing: It led to the disappearance of entire peoples in the Americas, but it…

1999

#9761

Epidemics and history: Disease, power and imperialism.

1999

#10953

Outbreak of West Nile-like viral encephalitis -- New York, 1999.

On October 1, 1999 the CDC reported a cluster of human encephalitis cases; prior to these cases many crows had been dying. The "sentinel event" in this outbreak was the report to the New York Health Dept. by Dr. D. As…

1999

#11925

Flu: The story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it.

2000

#7976

A population history of the United States. Edited by Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel.

From Pre-Columbian times to the present.

2000

#8061

Epidemics and genocide in Eastern Europe, 1890-1945.

2000

#8360

The four horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, war, famine and death in Reformation Europe.

2000

#9094

The measure of multitude: Population in medieval thought.

Chapters 6-8 cover "Avoidance of offspring" or aspects of contraception.

2000

#10013

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome IV, 3e partie: Epidémies V et VII. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna. (Collection des universités de France). Commentaire médical par Mirko Grmek.

Epidemics V and VII are dated sometime around mid 4th century BCE, and compiled by a member of Hippocrates' circle.

2000

#12206

The demography of Victorian England and Wales.

2001

#8396

Rising life expectancy: A global history.

"Between 1800 and 2000 life expectancy at birth rose from about 30 years to a global average of 67 years, and to more than 75 years in favored countries. This dramatic change was called a health transition, characteri…

2001

#10534

Contagious divides: Epidemics and race in San Francisco's Chinatown.

2001

#10695

Death on the Nile. Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt.

2001

#11853

Biology of plagues: Evidence from historical populations.

2002

#7983

Native society and disease in colonial Ecuador.

2002

#8041

Vital accounts: Quantifying health and population in eighteenth-century England and France.

Focuses several chapters on the debates over innoculation for smallpox, and statistical measurement of results, statistical studies of the effect of climate on disease, etc.

2002

#13567

Invisible invaders: Smallpox and other diseases in Aboriginal Australia 1780-1880.

"An epidemic of smallpox among Aboriginal people around the infant colony of Sydney in 1789 puzzled the British, for there had been no cases on the ships of the First Fleet. Where, then, did the epidemic come from? "A…

2003

#10183

A pest in the land: New World epidemics in a global perspective.

2003

#10859

Outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome - Worldwide, 2003.

First description of the scope of the outbreak dated March 21, 2003, preliminary case definition, and interim infection control guidance for the United States. Available from the CDC at this link. One week later the C…

2003

#10860

Coronavirus as a possible cause of severe acute respiratory syndrome.

Dated April 19, 2003, this paper identified and reproduced microscopic images of the novel viral agent. It was the first official journal publication on SARS. Order of authorship in the published paper was Peiris, Lai…