1993 ARNOLD, David (1946 – )
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.
GMN 8811 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10989
1995 KOHN, George Childs
Encyclopedia of plague and pestilence.
GMN 11795 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13997
1996 ECKERT, Edward A. (1920 – )
The structure of plagues and pestilences in early modern Europe. Central Europe, 1560-1640.
"The most in-depth study ever undertaken of how plague and other infectious diseases affected populations in Central Europe between 1560 and 1640. Based on quantitative data gleaned from over 800 parish registers, the…
GMN 9235 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11417
1996 PATTERSON, Karl David (1941 – )
Pandemic influenza 1700-1900: A study in historical epidemiology.
GMN 12106 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14315
1998 OLDSTONE, Michael B. A.
Viruses, plagues & history: Past, present, and future.
Revised and updated edition, 2010.
GMN 7960 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10135
1998 CLIFF, Andrew David; HAGGETT, Peter (1933 – ); SMALLMAN-RAYNOR, Matthew
Deciphering global epidemics: Analytical approaches to the disease records of world cities, 1888-1912.
GMN 9375 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11558
1998 COOK, Noble David (1941 – )
Born to die: Disease and New World conquest, 1492-1650.
"The biological mingling of the previously separated Old and New Worlds began with the first voyage of Columbus. The exchange was a mixed blessing: It led to the disappearance of entire peoples in the Americas, but it…
GMN 10574 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12767
1999 WATTS, Sheldon
Epidemics and history: Disease, power and imperialism.
GMN 9761 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11949
1999 KOLATA, Gina Bari (1948 – )
Flu: The story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it.
GMN 11925 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14130
2000 WEINDLING, Paul Julian (1953 – )
Epidemics and genocide in Eastern Europe, 1890-1945.
GMN 8061 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10237
2000 GRELL, Ole Peter (1950 – ); CUNNINGHAM, Andrew
The four horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, war, famine and death in Reformation Europe.
GMN 8360 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10536
2001 SHAH, Nahan (1962 – )
Contagious divides: Epidemics and race in San Francisco's Chinatown.
GMN 10534 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12727
2001 SCHEIDEL, Walter (1966 – )
Death on the Nile. Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt.
GMN 10695 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12888
2001 SCOTT, Susan (1953 – ); DUNCAN, Christopher J.
Biology of plagues: Evidence from historical populations.
GMN 11853 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14057
2002 ALCHON, Susan Austin (1952 – )
Native society and disease in colonial Ecuador.
GMN 7983 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10159
2002 CAMPBELL, Judy
Invisible invaders: Smallpox and other diseases in Aboriginal Australia 1780-1880.
"An epidemic of smallpox among Aboriginal people around the infant colony of Sydney in 1789 puzzled the British, for there had been no cases on the ships of the First Fleet. Where, then, did the epidemic come from? "A…
GMN 13567 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15845
2003 ALCHON, Susan Austin (1952 – )
A pest in the land: New World epidemics in a global perspective.
GMN 10183 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12372
2003 SPINAGE, Clive A.
Cattle plague: A history.
"Cattle Plague: A History is the most comprehensive general study of the history of cattle plague or rinderpest yet attempted, of which there has not been a book in English since 1866. With its stranglehold on the eco…
GMN 11755 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13955
2004 CLIFF, Andrew David; SMALLMAN-RAYNOR, Matthew
War epidemics: An historical geography of infectious diseases in military conflict and civil strife, 1850–2000.
GMN 9762 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11950
2004 BARRY, John M. (1947 – )
The great influenza: The epic story of the greatest plague in history.
GMN 9974 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12163
2004 GILBERT, Pamela K. (1964 – )
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…
GMN 10508 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12701
2004 MORABIA, Alfredo (1952 – )
A history of epidemiologic methods and concepts. Edited by Alfredo Morabia.
GMN 11530 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13729
2004 MARKEL, Howard (1960 – )
When germs travel: Six major epidemics that have invaded America since 1900 and the fears they have unleashed.
GMN 13701 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15983
2005 BYERLY, Carol R.
Fever of war: The influenza epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I.
GMN 10415 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12608
2005 HAYES, Jo N. (1938 – )
Epidemics and pandemics: Their impact on human history.
GMN 11811 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14013
2006 KILBOURNE, Edwin Dennis (1920 – 2011)
Influenza pandemics of the 20th century.
Abstract: "Three worldwide (pandemic) outbreaks of influenza occurred in the 20th century: in 1918, 1957, and 1968. The latter 2 were in the era of modern virology and most thoroughly characterized. All 3 have been in…
GMN 11872 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14076
2007 KELTON, Paul
Epidemics and enslavement: Biological catastrophe in the native Southeast, 1492-1715,
GMN 7506 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9678
2007 ECHENBERG, Myron (1940 – )
Plague ports: The global urban impact of bubonic plague, 1894-1901.
"A century ago, the third bubonic plague swept the globe, taking more than 15 million lives. The book tells the story of ten cities on five continents that were ravaged by the epidemic in it's initial years: Hong Kong…
GMN 11391 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13590
2008 GILBERT, Pamela K. (1964 – )
Cholera and nation: Doctoring the Victorian social body.
GMN 10509 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12702
2010 HARRISON, Mark
Medicine in an age of commerce and empire: Britain and its tropical colonies 1660-1830.
GMN 8822 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11000
2010 MCNEILL, John Robert (1954 – )
Mosquito empires: Ecology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914.
"explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth cen…
GMN 9389 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11572
2010 SWEDLUND, Alan C.
Shadows in the valley: A cultural history of illness, death, and loss in New England, 1840-1916.
"...The study is organized for the most part around disease categories and the life cycle, so that the cultural framework of people's habits and values often seems secondary. Most of what we learn about illness and de…
GMN 10342 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12534
2010 SERLIN, David
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…
GMN 10612 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12805
2010 FRANDSEN, Karl-Erick
The last plague in the Baltic Region 1709-1713.
This work "offers a thorough description and analysis of the terrible plague epidemic that ravaged the Baltic region in the years between 1709 and 1713? at the same time when the region was razed by the Great Northern…
GMN 11393 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13592
2011 KOCH, Tom
Disease maps: Epidemics on the ground.
Well-written and beautifully illustrated in color. Unfortunately the bibliography contains many errors.
GMN 8686 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10863
2011 HANSON, Marta E.
Speaking of epidemics in Chinese medicine: Disease and the geographic imagination in late imperial China.
GMN 9488 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11672
2011 FOEGE, William Herbert (1936 – )
House on fire: The fight to eradicate smallpox.
Foege, as director of the Centers for Disease Control, is credited with "devising the global strategy that led to the eradication of smallpox in the late 1970s".[4]
GMN 10625 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12818
2012 CLIFF, Andrew David; SMALLMAN-RAYNOR, Matthew
Atlas of epidemic Britain: A twentieth century picture.
GMN 9458 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11641
2012 HARRISON, Mark
Contagion: How commerce has spread disease.
GMN 10418 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12611
2013 ARTENSTEIN, Andrew W.
In the blink of an eye: The deadly story of epidemic meningitis.
GMN 8100 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10276
2013 SMITH, Billy G.
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-…
GMN 9374 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11557
2013 WILLIAMS, Gareth
Paralysed with fear: The story of polio.
GMN 10219 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12409
2013 ADLER, Richard
Cholera in Detroit: A history.
GMN 12141 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14350
2014 MAHMOOD, Syed S.; LEVY, Daniel; RAMACHANDRAN, Vasan S.; WANG, Thomas J.
The Framingham Heart Study and the epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases: A historical perspective.
Full text available from PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 10214 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12403
2015 KELTON, Paul
Cherokee medicine, colonial germs: An indigenous nation’s fight against smallpox, 1518–1824.
GMN 7504 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9676
2017 SPINNEY, Laura
Pale Rider: The Spanish flu of 1918 and how It changed the world.
GMN 9691 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11878
2017 HARPER, Kyle (1979 – )
The Fate of Rome: Climate, disease, and the end of an empire.
GMN 10694 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12887
2017 ROTHSTEIN, William G. (1937 – )
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…
GMN 12372 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14597
2018 FRANCIS A. COUNTWAY LIBRARY OF MEDICINE
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…
GMN 9959 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12148
2018 MURRAY, John F.; LODDENKEMPER, Robert (1939 – )
Tuberculosis and War: Lessons learned from World War II. Edited by John F. Murray and Robert Loddenkemper.
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the status of TB before, during and after WWII in the 25 belligerent countries that were chiefly involved. It also summarizes the history of TB up to the present day. "A …
GMN 10594 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12787
