Epidemics and History Disease, Power and Imperialism

Name: Epidemics and History Disease, Power and Imperialism
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ISBN: 9780300080872

ISBN-10: 0300080875

ISBN-13: 9780300080872

Edition: 1999

Authors: Sheldon Watts

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This book will become the standard account of the way disease has transformed societies and of how the structuring of society, politics, the economy and the medical profession has shaped the spread and containment of epidemics.

Book details

List price: $39.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 11/10/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.93" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgements


Introduction



The Human Response to Plague in Western Europe and the Middle East, 1347 to 1844


Introduction


Shifting Attitudes towards Disease


Professional Paradigms: Continuities and Change


The Invention of Controls


Responses to Plague in the Middle East



Dark Hidden Meanings: Leprosy and Lepers in the Medieval West and in the Tropical World under the European Imperium


Introduction


Leprosy in the European Middle Ages: Background


The Great Leper Hunt, c. 1090 to 1363


Leprosy and Empire



Smallpox in the New World and in the Old: From Holocaust to Eradication, 1518 to 1977


Introduction


The Disease and its First Impact on New World Peoples


Mindsets and Practices


The African Connection


Towards Eradication



The Secret Plague: Syphilis in West Europe and East Asia, 1492 to 1965


Introduction


Initial Perceptions


The Commercialization of Syphilis


Changes in Sociability, c. 1480 to c. 1750


The Competition for Control


Treponema Pallidum and the Rise of Mass Society


Syphilis and "Syphilis" in China, c. 1860 to 1965



Cholera and Civilization: Great Britain and India, 1817 to 1920


Introduction


Cholera as Disease


Cholera in India to c. 1857


Cholera in Britain


Cholera in India after 1857



Yellow Fever, Malaria and Development: Atlantic Africa and the New World, 1647 to 1928


Introduction


The Diseases


Slavery and the Fevers in Atlantic Africa to c. 1840


Slavery, Yellow Fever and Malaria in the New World


Barbados


Haiti


The United States


Brazil


Cuba


West Africa and Tropical Medicine, 1895-1928



Afterword: To the Epidemiologic Transition?


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index