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World epidemics：a cultural chronology of disease from prehistory to the era of SARS

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Snodgrass Mary Ellen.
Published: McFarland & Co.,
Publisher Address: Jefferson, N.C.
Publication Dates: c2011.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Epidemics > History
Epidemics > Social aspects > History.
Disease Outbreaks > history.
Socioeconomic Factors.
Epidemiologie.
Culturele aspecten.
Epidemies > Histoire.
Epidemies > Aspect social > Histoire.
Krankheit.
Carrier Form: vii, 479 p.: ; 26 cm.
ISBN: 9780786466283
Index Number: R51
CLC: R51-09
Call Number: R51-09/S673
Contents: "Historic writings on disease" [&] "Authors of major works on disease": p. 389-403.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-443) and index.
Chronology -- Glossary -- Epidemic diseases and sources -- Historic writings on disease -- Timeline of writings on disease -- Authors of major -- works on disease -- Bibliography: General Resources -- Resources by Disease.
The chronological entries of this book provide a record of the impact upon human culture of epidemic illness and death throughout history. From the bone deposits suggesting yaws bacteria on a femur from 498,000 B.C., to an outbreak of sudden acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003, the work covers demographics, symptoms, community health, nursing, study, prevention, treatment, and disease control since ancient times. Biographical information highlights notables who identified and battled disease such as Galen and Benjamin Rush. Enhancing the historical data are a map of resurgent vector-borne diseases and comparative charts of types of infection, results of scourges, and rough estimates of people affected by each event. A glossary clarifies 106 crucial terms. Appendix A lists diseases by both proper and informal names, Latinate names of pathogens, dates and places of early outbreaks of each disease, and the manner of their infection. Three additional appendices present historic writings on disease. Two bibliographies (general resources; specific diseases) of major works, histories of medicine, health journals, and web sites on the history of contagion, and a generously cross-referenced index complete the work.

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