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| Foreword | |
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| Series Editor's Preface | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Types and Causes of Disease | |
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| The Impact of Disease | |
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| Disease and the Historian | |
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| The Spread of Diseases | |
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| Disease and Society | |
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| A Eurasian Pandemic: The Black Death in Europe and the Middle East, 1347-1350 | |
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| The Origins of the Black Death | |
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| What was the Black Death? | |
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| The Black Death as a Social Force | |
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| The Spread of the Black Death | |
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| The Mortality Rate of the Black Death | |
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| A Turning Point in History? | |
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| Contemporary Views of the Black Death | |
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| The Impact of the Black Death | |
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| Sources | |
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| Notes | |
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| American Holocaust: Smallpox in the Americas, 1518-1670 | |
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| The Demographic Impact of New Diseases in the Americas | |
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| Smallpox: Its Early History and Manifestations | |
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| Defenses against Smallpox | |
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| The Arrival of Smallpox in the Americas | |
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| The Impact of New Diseases upon American Indians | |
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| The Native Populations of the Americas | |
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| Epidemics: Intentional Genocide or Unintended Consequences? | |
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| The Impact of Disease on Native Culture | |
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| Sources | |
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| Notes | |
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| Disease and the Birth of Modern Medicine: Bubonic and Pneumonic Plague in India and China, 1896-1921 | |
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| The Plague Breaks Out in India | |
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| The British Raj's Response | |
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| The Black Death and the Indian Plague | |
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| Evidence Collection and Analysis | |
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| Initial Colonial Policy and Native Resistance | |
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| New Policies | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| The Plague Breaks Out in Manchuria | |
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| Governmental Response | |
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| Sources | |
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| Notes | |
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| A Modern Plague: Aids in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1982 to the Present | |
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| The AIDS Victims of sub-Saharan Africa | |
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| The Disease's Characteristics | |
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| Search for a Vaccine and Effective Therapies | |
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| The Origin of AIDS | |
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| Disease Transmission | |
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| AIDS as a Social Construct | |
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| The Impact of AIDS | |
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| AIDS Compared with Past Pandemics | |
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| The Extaordinary Aspects of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa | |
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| Sources | |
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| Notes | |
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| Epilogue: Making Connections | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |