Facets

1971 CE

#4672.5

A history of poliomyelitis.

2008 CE

#10509

Cholera and nation: Doctoring the Victorian social body.

1993 CE

#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.

2018 CE

#9959

CONTAGION: Historical views of diseases and epidemics.

http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/ This was the original version of this digital library. It includes commentary. It may be available through the Internet Archive, Archive-It facility or through the Wayback Machine…

2012 CE

#10418

Contagion: How commerce has spread disease.

1992 CE

#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.

1999 CE

#11925

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

2016 CE

#10012

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome IV, 1ère partie: Epidémies I et III. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna. (Collection des universités de France.)

Greek text with facing French translation. Epidemics I and III, by a physician of Hippocrates' milieu, possibly by Hippocrates himself, sometime around 410 BCE

1965 CE

#1685.1

History and geography of the most important diseases.

Originally published in German, 1963.

1990 CE

#6994

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

2011 CE

#8408

History of the statistical classification of diseases and causes of death. Edited and updated by Harry M. Rosenberg and Donna L. Hoyert.

Digital facsimile available from the cdc.gov at this link.

2010 CE

#10612

Imagining illness: Public health and visual culture. Edited by David Serlin.

"From seventeenth-century broadsides about the handling of dead bodies, printed during London's plague years, to YouTube videos about preventing the transmission of STDs, public health advocacy and education has alway…

2013 CE

#8100

In the blink of an eye: The deadly story of epidemic meningitis.

2016 CE

#14068

Influenza encyclopedia: The American influenza epidemic of 1918 - 1919: A digital encyclopedia. Second edition.

ABOUT "Historians, journalists, and the public at large have long been interested in the 1918 “Spanish flu” epidemic, a dramatic chapter in American life that has spawned an impressive body of books, artic…

2004 CE

#10508

Mapping the Victorian social body.

"The cholera epidemics that plagued London in the nineteenth century were a turning point in the science of epidemiology and public health, and the use of maps to pinpoint the source of the disease initiated an explos…

2010 CE

#8822

Medicine in an age of commerce and empire: Britain and its tropical colonies 1660-1830.

1912 CE

#8407

On mortality and the causes of death according to occupations. IN: Transactions of the 15th International Congress on Hygiene Demography, pp. 336-339.

Bertillon, brother of Alphonse Bertillon, was Chief of Statistical Services for the city of Paris. His classification of diseases was based on the principle, adopted by Farr, of distinguishing between general diseases…

2017 CE

#9691

Pale Rider: The Spanish flu of 1918 and how It changed the world.

1926 CE

#10468

Population problems of the age of Malthus.

Includes chapters on birth and marriage rates relating to conditions of employment, also the influence of the Poor Laws on these rates. Other chapters concern agriculture and food and health of towns and factores, and…

2018 CE

#10935

Reading contagion: The hazards of reading in the age of print.

2001 CE

#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…

2013 CE

#9374

Ship of death: A voyage that changed the Atlantic world.

A multi-disciplinary account from the perspectives of the history of the slave trade, the anti-slavery movement and medical history, of the voyage of the Hankey, a small British ship that circled the Atlantic in 1792-…

1780 CE

#5488

Tableau historique et raisonné des épidémies catharrales vulgairement dites la grippe; depuis 1510 jusques et y compris celle de 1780.

1731 CE

#9461

Tabular observations recommended as the plainest and surest way of practising and improving physick. In a letter to a friend.

Clifton argued that physicians should base their judgments about the effects of treatments on a sufficient number of their own observations, or trusted observations by other physicians, rather than on the correlation …

1987 CE

#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…

1993 CE

#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.

2017 CE

#12372

The coronary heart disease pandemic in the twentieth century: Emergence and decline in advanced countries.

"This book demonstrates that a pandemic of coronary heart disease occurred in North America, western and northern Europe, and Australia and New Zealand from the 1930s to about 2000. At its peak it caused more deaths t…

1997 CE

#11822

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

2017 CE

#10694

The Fate of Rome: Climate, disease, and the end of an empire.

2018 CE

#10626

The fears of the rich, the needs of the poor: My years at the CDC,

Director of the Centers for Disease Control from 1977-1983, and President and Co-Founder of The Task Force for Global Heath, 1984-1999, Foege was instrumental in the eradication of smallpox, the generalization of immu…

2000 CE

#8360

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

2004 CE

#9974

The great influenza: The epic story of the greatest plague in history.

2015 CE

#11923

The influenza pandemic in Japan, 1918-1920: The first world war between humankind and a virus. Translation by Lynne E. Riggs and Takechi Manbu.

1879 CE

#9028

The laws relating to quarantine of Her Majesty's dominions at home and abroad, and of the principal foreign states, including the sections of the Public health act, 1875, which bear upon measures of prevention

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1967 CE

#10679

The sleeping sickness epidemic of Uganda 1900-1920: A study in historical geography.

1732 CE

#9460

The state of physick, ancient and modern, briefly considered: with a plan for the improvement of it.

Instead of assessing the efficacy of therapies by their correlation with theories, Clifton argued that physicians should base their judgments about the effects of treatments on a sufficient number of their own observa…

1855 CE

#5454.2

Yellow fever, considered in its historical, pathological, etiological, and therapeutical relations: including a sketch of the disease as it has occurred in Philadelphia from 1699 to 1854, with an examination of the connections between it and the fevers known under the same name in other parts of temperate, as well as in tropical, regions. 2 vols.

The most important 19th century American monograph on yellow fever. La Roche’s work sketched the disease in its appearances from 1699 to 1854 at Philadelphia, which saw some of the worst yellow fever epidemics, …

1931 CE

#5468

Yellow fever: an epidemiological and historical study of its place of origin. Edited by Laura Armistead Carter and Wade Hampton Frost.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.