Epidemics and pandemics : their impacts on human history

Author:

Hays, J. N., 1938-

Title:

Epidemics and pandemics : their impacts on human history / J. N. Hays.

Format:

Book

Published:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2005.

Language:

English

Description:

xii, 513 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.

URL:

<Table of contents> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0518/2005025962.html

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• Preface
• Epidemic in Athens, 430-427 B.C.E.
• Malaria in ancient Rome
• Plague of the Antonines
• First plague pandemic, 541-747
• Smallpox epidemic in Japan, 735-737
• Leprosy in medieval Europe
• Second plague pandemic, 1346-1844
• "French disease" in sixteenth-century Europe
• Epidemics in sixteenth-century America
• Epidemics and the thirty years' war, 1618-1648
• Plague in Italian cities, 1630s
• Epidemics in China, 1640-1644
• Plague in London, 1665
• Smallpox in Iceland, 1707-1709
• Plague in Marseilles, 1720-1722
• Smallpox in Boston, 1721
• Smallpox in eighteenth-century Europe
• Plague in Moscow, 1771
• Influenza pandemic, 1781-1782
• Yellow fever in Hispaniola, 1793-1804
• Yellow fever in Philadelphia, 1793
• First cholera pandemic, 1817-1824
• Consumption in the nineteenth century
• Second cholera pandemic, 1827-1835
• Third cholera pandemic, 1839-1856
• "Fevers" and the great famine in Ireland, 1846-1850
• Typhoid fever in cities, 1850-1920
• Yellow fever in New Orleans, 1853
• Fourth cholera pandemic, 1863-1875
• Carrion's disease in Peru, 1870-1871
• Smallpox in Europe, 1870-1875
• Measles in Fiji, 1875
• Fifth cholera pandemic, 1881-1896
• Influenza pandemic, 1889-1890
• Cholera epidemic in Hamburg, 1892
• Third plague pandemic, 1894-?
• Sixth cholera pandemic, 1899-1923
• Sleeping sickness in east central Africa, 1900-1905
• Typhoid Mary's "epidemics"
• Cholera epidemic in Naples, 1910-1911
• Poliomyelitis in the United States, 1916
• Influenza pandemic, 1918-1919
• Lung cancer in the United States, mid-twentieth century
• Poliomyelitis in the United States, 1945-1955
• Seventh cholera pandemic, 1961-present
• Aids in the United States, 1980s
• Contemporary Aids pandemic
• The mad cow crisis and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, 1985-present
• Contemporary malaria
• Contemporary tuberculosis
• Epilogue
• Glossary.

Subject headings:

Epidemics--History. Diseases and history.

ISBN:

1851096582 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1851096639 (ebook)