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History of Epidemiology

Exhibiting 105 entries found in the GMN corpus.

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YearTitle & TagsAuthor(s)
1993Colonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.
1995Encyclopedia of plague and pestilence.
1996The structure of plagues and pestilences in early modern Europe. Central Europe, 1560-1640.
1996Pandemic influenza 1700-1900: A study in historical epidemiology.
1998Viruses, plagues & history: Past, present, and future.
1998Deciphering global epidemics: Analytical approaches to the disease records of world cities, 1888-1912.
1998Born to die: Disease and New World conquest, 1492-1650.
1999Epidemics and history: Disease, power and imperialism.
1999Flu: The story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it.
2000Epidemics and genocide in Eastern Europe, 1890-1945.
2000The four horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, war, famine and death in Reformation Europe.
2001Contagious divides: Epidemics and race in San Francisco's Chinatown.
2001Death on the Nile. Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt.
2001Biology of plagues: Evidence from historical populations.
2002Native society and disease in colonial Ecuador.
2002Invisible invaders: Smallpox and other diseases in Aboriginal Australia 1780-1880.
2003A pest in the land: New World epidemics in a global perspective.
2003Cattle plague: A history.
2004War epidemics: An historical geography of infectious diseases in military conflict and civil strife, 1850–2000.
2004The great influenza: The epic story of the greatest plague in history.
2004Mapping the Victorian social body.
2004A history of epidemiologic methods and concepts. Edited by Alfredo Morabia.
2004When germs travel: Six major epidemics that have invaded America since 1900 and the fears they have unleashed.
2005Fever of war: The influenza epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I.
2005Epidemics and pandemics: Their impact on human history.
2006Influenza pandemics of the 20th century.
2007Epidemics and enslavement: Biological catastrophe in the native Southeast, 1492-1715,
2007Plague ports: The global urban impact of bubonic plague, 1894-1901.
2008Cholera and nation: Doctoring the Victorian social body.
2010Medicine in an age of commerce and empire: Britain and its tropical colonies 1660-1830.
2010Mosquito empires: Ecology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914.
2010Shadows in the valley: A cultural history of illness, death, and loss in New England, 1840-1916.
2010Imagining illness: Public health and visual culture. Edited by David Serlin.
2010The last plague in the Baltic Region 1709-1713.
2011Disease maps: Epidemics on the ground.
2011Speaking of epidemics in Chinese medicine: Disease and the geographic imagination in late imperial China.
2011House on fire: The fight to eradicate smallpox.
2012Atlas of epidemic Britain: A twentieth century picture.
2012Contagion: How commerce has spread disease.
2013In the blink of an eye: The deadly story of epidemic meningitis.
2013Ship of death: A voyage that changed the Atlantic world.
2013Paralysed with fear: The story of polio.
2013Cholera in Detroit: A history.
2014The Framingham Heart Study and the epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases: A historical perspective.
2015Cherokee medicine, colonial germs: An indigenous nation’s fight against smallpox, 1518–1824.
2017Pale Rider: The Spanish flu of 1918 and how It changed the world.
2017The Fate of Rome: Climate, disease, and the end of an empire.
2017The coronary heart disease pandemic in the twentieth century: Emergence and decline in advanced countries.
2018CONTAGION: Historical views of diseases and epidemics.
2018Tuberculosis and War: Lessons learned from World War II. Edited by John F. Murray and Robert Loddenkemper.