Epidemics and Pandemics
From Ancient Plagues to Modern-Day Threats [2 volumes]
Published on 27. January 2021
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Hardback
776 pages
978-1-4408-6378-3 (ISBN)
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Beyond their impact on public health, epidemics shape and are shaped by political, economic, and social forces. This book examines these connections, exploring key topics in the study of disease outbreaks and delving deep into specific historical and contemporary examples.
From the Black Death that ravaged Europe in the 14th century to the influenza pandemic following World War I and the novel strain of coronavirus that made "social distancing" the new normal, wide-scale disease outbreaks have played an important role throughout human history. In addition to the toll they take on human lives, epidemics have spurred medical innovations, toppled governments, crippled economies, and led to cultural revolutions.
Epidemics and Pandemics: From Ancient Plagues to Modern-Day Threats provides readers with a holistic view of the terrifying-and fascinating-topic of epidemics and pandemics. In Volume 1, readers will discover what an epidemic is, how it emerges and spreads, what diseases are most likely to become epidemics, and how disease outbreaks are tracked, prevented, and combatted. They will learn about the impacts of such modern factors as global air travel and antibiotic resistance, as well as the roles played by public health agencies and the media. Volume 2 offers detailed case studies that explore the course and lasting significance of individual epidemics and pandemics throughout history.
From the Black Death that ravaged Europe in the 14th century to the influenza pandemic following World War I and the novel strain of coronavirus that made "social distancing" the new normal, wide-scale disease outbreaks have played an important role throughout human history. In addition to the toll they take on human lives, epidemics have spurred medical innovations, toppled governments, crippled economies, and led to cultural revolutions.
Epidemics and Pandemics: From Ancient Plagues to Modern-Day Threats provides readers with a holistic view of the terrifying-and fascinating-topic of epidemics and pandemics. In Volume 1, readers will discover what an epidemic is, how it emerges and spreads, what diseases are most likely to become epidemics, and how disease outbreaks are tracked, prevented, and combatted. They will learn about the impacts of such modern factors as global air travel and antibiotic resistance, as well as the roles played by public health agencies and the media. Volume 2 offers detailed case studies that explore the course and lasting significance of individual epidemics and pandemics throughout history.
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English
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United States
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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College/higher education
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
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With dust jacket
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40 bw illus
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Height: 262 mm
Width: 185 mm
Thickness: 53 mm
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2018 gr
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978-1-4408-6378-3 (9781440863783)
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Joseph P. Byrne | Jo N. Hays
Epidemics and Pandemics
From Ancient Plagues to Modern-Day Threats [2 Volumes]
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Joseph P. Byrne holds a doctorate in medieval and early modern European history from Indiana University. He has taught in the honors program and history department at Belmont University since 1988.
Jo N. Hays is professor emeritus of history at Loyola University. He received his PhD in history and the history of science from the University of Chicago.
Jo N. Hays is professor emeritus of history at Loyola University. He received his PhD in history and the history of science from the University of Chicago.
Content
VOLUME 1
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: The Fundamentals
1. A Look Inside: Pathogens and the Human Body
The Types of Pathogens That Cause Infectious Disease
The Human Body Fights Back: The Immune System, Resistance, and Immunity
The Damage That Pathogens Can Cause Inside the Human Body
Various Symptoms: The Signs on the Outside
Sources and Further Reading
2. Gateways for Pathogens: Sources, Hosts, Vectors, and Contracting Disease
Infectious Diseases: Reservoirs, Hosts, and Pathogen Sources
"Catching Diseases": How Microscopic Pathogens Enter the Human Body
Parasitic Worms and Disease
Sources and Further Reading
3. Outbreaks, Epidemics, and Pandemics
Outbreak: Disease Occurring within Limited Populations
Epidemic: When Disease Spreads beyond Limited Populations
Pandemic: Beyond an Epidemic in Space, Severity, and Duration
Sources and Further Reading
4. Confronting Infectious Disease: Before Germ Theory
Theories of Health and Disease before the Discovery of Germs
Campaigns against Plague before the Discovery of Germs
Nineteenth-century Medical Achievements before the Discovery of Germs
Sources and Further Reading
5. Battles against Infectious Disease: Triumph of Germ Theory
Discovering and Subduing the Germ: Major Medical Advances from Louis Pasteur to Unravelling the Genome
Major Public Health Advances of the Twentieth Century
A World War against Disease: International Organization and Efforts
Sources and Further Reading
6. Epidemic Disease in the Twenty-First Century
Perfect Storms: Social, Economic, and Political Conditions Conducive to Disease
Continuing Diseases
New and Emerging Diseases
Reemerging Diseases
Frontiers of Medicine: Trends in Prevention and Treatment
Some Contemporary Global Public Health Initiatives
Sources and Further Reading
Part 2: Epidemics and Human Society
7. Economics and Epidemic Disease
Economics and the Spread of Pathogens
Wealth, Poverty, and Disease
Economic Effects of Epidemics
State Economic Intervention in Disease Prevention and Control
Sources and Further Reading
8. Governments, Politics, and Plagues
Plagues and Governments in the Premodern World
The Age of Cholera and Nineteenth-Century International Cooperation
AIDS and the Modern State in the 1980s
Epilogue: COVID-19
Sources and Further Reading
9. Religion, Magic, and Epidemic Disease
Religious Causal Explanations: From Apollo to Ebola
Religious Responses to Disease
Religious Factors in Spreading Disease
Effects of Epidemic Disease on Religion
Magic as Cause and Cure
Sources and Further Reading
10. War and Epidemics
The Gathering: Mobilization, Training, Disease, and Infection Prevention
Before the Shooting Starts: Camp and Garrison Life and Disease
When the Marching Starts
War, Disease, and the Noncombatant
Biological Warfare
When the Shooting Stops
Sources and Further Reading
11. Colonialism, Slavery, Racism, and Epidemic Disease
Contact: Initial Shocks
Slave Life in the Americas
Race, Ethnicity, and Disease
Sources and Further Reading
12. Sex and Epidemic Disease
Pathogens and STDs
Historical Perspectives on Venereal Diseases
The Sexual Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s
From Transmission to Epidemic
Sources and Further Reading
13. Media and Epidemics from Gutenberg to AIDS
Early Popular Press and Epidemic Disease
Emerging Telecommunication and Mass Media
Mass Media and AIDS in the 1980s
Sources and Further Reading
14. Disease in the Literary, Visual, and Performing Arts
The Arts and the Second Plague Pandemic
Tuberculosis, Romanticism, and Realism
AIDS and the Arts
Fictional Diseases in Contemporary Films and Novels
Sources and Further Reading
VOLUME 2
1. Malaria in Ancient Rome
2. First Plague Pandemic, 541-747
3. Smallpox Epidemic in Japan, 735-737
4. Leprosy in Medieval Europe
5. The Black Death Begins: The Second Plague Pandemic, 1346-1352
6. Epidemics in Sixteenth-Century America
7. "French Disease" in Sixteenth-Century Europe
8. Epidemics and the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
9. Plague in Italian Cities, 1630s
10. Epidemics in China, 1635-1644
11. Plague in London, 1665
12. Plague in Marseille, 1720-1722
13. Smallpox in Boston, 1721
14. Smallpox in Eighteenth-Century Europe
15. Plague in Moscow, 1771
16. Yellow Fever in Hispaniola, 1793-1804
17. Yellow Fever in Philadelphia, 1793
18. Epidemics in the Napoleonic Wars, 1797-1815
19. Consumption in the Nineteenth Century
20. First Cholera Pandemic, 1817-1824
21. Second Cholera Pandemic, 1827-1835
22. Third Cholera Pandemic, 1839-1856
23. Typhoid Fever in Cities, 1850-1920
24. Yellow Fever in New Orleans, 1853
25. Fourth Cholera Pandemic, 1863-1875
26. Smallpox in Europe, 1870-1875
27. Measles in Fiji, 1875
28. Fifth Cholera Pandemic, 1881-1896
29. Influenza Pandemic, 1889-1893
30. Cholera Epidemic in Hamburg, 1892
31. Third Plague Pandemic, 1894-?
32. Sixth Cholera Pandemic, 1899-1923
33. Sleeping Sickness in East Central Africa, 1900-1905
34. Typhoid Mary's "Epidemics," 1906-1915
35. Pneumonic Plague Epidemic in Manchuria, 1910-1911
36. Cholera Epidemic in Naples, 1910-1911
37. Poliomyelitis in the United States, 1916
38. Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1919
39. Poliomyelitis in the United States, 1945-1955
40. Seventh Cholera Pandemic, 1961-
41. Contemporary HIV/AIDS Pandemic, 1980-
42. The Mad Cow Crisis and Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies, 1985-
43. Contemporary Malaria
44. Contemporary Tuberculosis
45. SARS Epidemic, East Asia, 2002-2003
46. "Asian Flu" (H1N1) Epidemic, Asia, 2009-2010
47. MERS Epidemic, Middle East, 2012-?
48. Ebola Virus Epidemic, West Africa, 2013-2016
49. Pneumonic Plague Epidemic, Madagascar, 2014-2017
50. Zika Virus Epidemic, Latin America and the Caribbean, 2015-2017
51. Cholera Epidemic, Yemen, 2017-?
52. Contemporary Measles Outbreaks, United States
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: The Fundamentals
1. A Look Inside: Pathogens and the Human Body
The Types of Pathogens That Cause Infectious Disease
The Human Body Fights Back: The Immune System, Resistance, and Immunity
The Damage That Pathogens Can Cause Inside the Human Body
Various Symptoms: The Signs on the Outside
Sources and Further Reading
2. Gateways for Pathogens: Sources, Hosts, Vectors, and Contracting Disease
Infectious Diseases: Reservoirs, Hosts, and Pathogen Sources
"Catching Diseases": How Microscopic Pathogens Enter the Human Body
Parasitic Worms and Disease
Sources and Further Reading
3. Outbreaks, Epidemics, and Pandemics
Outbreak: Disease Occurring within Limited Populations
Epidemic: When Disease Spreads beyond Limited Populations
Pandemic: Beyond an Epidemic in Space, Severity, and Duration
Sources and Further Reading
4. Confronting Infectious Disease: Before Germ Theory
Theories of Health and Disease before the Discovery of Germs
Campaigns against Plague before the Discovery of Germs
Nineteenth-century Medical Achievements before the Discovery of Germs
Sources and Further Reading
5. Battles against Infectious Disease: Triumph of Germ Theory
Discovering and Subduing the Germ: Major Medical Advances from Louis Pasteur to Unravelling the Genome
Major Public Health Advances of the Twentieth Century
A World War against Disease: International Organization and Efforts
Sources and Further Reading
6. Epidemic Disease in the Twenty-First Century
Perfect Storms: Social, Economic, and Political Conditions Conducive to Disease
Continuing Diseases
New and Emerging Diseases
Reemerging Diseases
Frontiers of Medicine: Trends in Prevention and Treatment
Some Contemporary Global Public Health Initiatives
Sources and Further Reading
Part 2: Epidemics and Human Society
7. Economics and Epidemic Disease
Economics and the Spread of Pathogens
Wealth, Poverty, and Disease
Economic Effects of Epidemics
State Economic Intervention in Disease Prevention and Control
Sources and Further Reading
8. Governments, Politics, and Plagues
Plagues and Governments in the Premodern World
The Age of Cholera and Nineteenth-Century International Cooperation
AIDS and the Modern State in the 1980s
Epilogue: COVID-19
Sources and Further Reading
9. Religion, Magic, and Epidemic Disease
Religious Causal Explanations: From Apollo to Ebola
Religious Responses to Disease
Religious Factors in Spreading Disease
Effects of Epidemic Disease on Religion
Magic as Cause and Cure
Sources and Further Reading
10. War and Epidemics
The Gathering: Mobilization, Training, Disease, and Infection Prevention
Before the Shooting Starts: Camp and Garrison Life and Disease
When the Marching Starts
War, Disease, and the Noncombatant
Biological Warfare
When the Shooting Stops
Sources and Further Reading
11. Colonialism, Slavery, Racism, and Epidemic Disease
Contact: Initial Shocks
Slave Life in the Americas
Race, Ethnicity, and Disease
Sources and Further Reading
12. Sex and Epidemic Disease
Pathogens and STDs
Historical Perspectives on Venereal Diseases
The Sexual Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s
From Transmission to Epidemic
Sources and Further Reading
13. Media and Epidemics from Gutenberg to AIDS
Early Popular Press and Epidemic Disease
Emerging Telecommunication and Mass Media
Mass Media and AIDS in the 1980s
Sources and Further Reading
14. Disease in the Literary, Visual, and Performing Arts
The Arts and the Second Plague Pandemic
Tuberculosis, Romanticism, and Realism
AIDS and the Arts
Fictional Diseases in Contemporary Films and Novels
Sources and Further Reading
VOLUME 2
1. Malaria in Ancient Rome
2. First Plague Pandemic, 541-747
3. Smallpox Epidemic in Japan, 735-737
4. Leprosy in Medieval Europe
5. The Black Death Begins: The Second Plague Pandemic, 1346-1352
6. Epidemics in Sixteenth-Century America
7. "French Disease" in Sixteenth-Century Europe
8. Epidemics and the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
9. Plague in Italian Cities, 1630s
10. Epidemics in China, 1635-1644
11. Plague in London, 1665
12. Plague in Marseille, 1720-1722
13. Smallpox in Boston, 1721
14. Smallpox in Eighteenth-Century Europe
15. Plague in Moscow, 1771
16. Yellow Fever in Hispaniola, 1793-1804
17. Yellow Fever in Philadelphia, 1793
18. Epidemics in the Napoleonic Wars, 1797-1815
19. Consumption in the Nineteenth Century
20. First Cholera Pandemic, 1817-1824
21. Second Cholera Pandemic, 1827-1835
22. Third Cholera Pandemic, 1839-1856
23. Typhoid Fever in Cities, 1850-1920
24. Yellow Fever in New Orleans, 1853
25. Fourth Cholera Pandemic, 1863-1875
26. Smallpox in Europe, 1870-1875
27. Measles in Fiji, 1875
28. Fifth Cholera Pandemic, 1881-1896
29. Influenza Pandemic, 1889-1893
30. Cholera Epidemic in Hamburg, 1892
31. Third Plague Pandemic, 1894-?
32. Sixth Cholera Pandemic, 1899-1923
33. Sleeping Sickness in East Central Africa, 1900-1905
34. Typhoid Mary's "Epidemics," 1906-1915
35. Pneumonic Plague Epidemic in Manchuria, 1910-1911
36. Cholera Epidemic in Naples, 1910-1911
37. Poliomyelitis in the United States, 1916
38. Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1919
39. Poliomyelitis in the United States, 1945-1955
40. Seventh Cholera Pandemic, 1961-
41. Contemporary HIV/AIDS Pandemic, 1980-
42. The Mad Cow Crisis and Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies, 1985-
43. Contemporary Malaria
44. Contemporary Tuberculosis
45. SARS Epidemic, East Asia, 2002-2003
46. "Asian Flu" (H1N1) Epidemic, Asia, 2009-2010
47. MERS Epidemic, Middle East, 2012-?
48. Ebola Virus Epidemic, West Africa, 2013-2016
49. Pneumonic Plague Epidemic, Madagascar, 2014-2017
50. Zika Virus Epidemic, Latin America and the Caribbean, 2015-2017
51. Cholera Epidemic, Yemen, 2017-?
52. Contemporary Measles Outbreaks, United States
Glossary
Bibliography
Index