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Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues [Two Volumes]
Joseph P. Byrne
Foreword by Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.
Book Code: GR4101
ISBN: 0-313-34101-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-34101-4
920 pages, photos
Greenwood Press
Publication: 9/30/2008
List Price: $199.95 (UK Sterling Price: £115.00)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 7 x 10
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Description: From the Athenian flu pandemic to the Black Death to AIDS, this extensive two-volume set offers a sociocultural, historical, and medical look at infectious diseases and their place in human history from Neolithic times to the present. Nearly 300 entries cover individual diseases (such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, Ebola, and SARS); major epidemics (such as the Black Death, 16th-century syphilis, cholera in the nineteenth century, and the Spanish Flu of 1918-19); environmental factors (such as ecology, travel, poverty, wealth, slavery, and war); and historical and cultural effects of disease (such as the relationship of Romanticism to Tuberculosis, the closing of London theaters during plague epidemics, and the effect of venereal disease on social reform). Editor Joseph P. Byrne, together with an advisory board of specialists and over 100 scholars, research scientists, and medical practitioners from 13 countries, has produced a uniquely interdisciplinary treatment of the ways in which diseases pestilence, and plagues have affected human life. Primary source sidebars, over 70 illustrations, a glossary, and an extensive print and nonprint bibliography round out the work. Entries include:

  • AIDS Literature and the Arts in the United States
  • Astrology and Medicine
  • Bio-terrorism
  • Black Death Flagellants
  • Corpses
  • Disease in the Pre-Columbian Americas
  • Ectoparasites
  • Folk Medicine
  • Hippocrates
  • Leprosy
  • Measles, Efforts to Eradicate
  • Mary Mallon
  • Napoleonic Wars
  • Personal Hygiene and Epidemic Disease
  • Quacks
  • Third Plague Pandemic in Africa
  • Thomas Sydenham
    • Table of Contents:
    • List of Entries
    • Guide to Related Topics
    • Foreword
    • Preface
    • Introduction
    • The Encyclopedia
    • Glossary
    • Bibliography
    • About the Editors and Contributors
    LC Card Number: 2008019487
    LCC Class: RA652
    Dewey Class: 614
    PDF Catalogs:
    Greenwood School and Public Library Reference Spring 2008.pdf
    Praeger Health and Wellness Spring 2008.pdf
    Academic Library Fall 2008.pdf
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