Table of Contents
Preface to the Paperback Edition ix
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
List of Abbreviations xvii
1 Introduction 1
2 Humoral Medicine: The Legacy of Hippocrates and Galen 9
3 Overview of the Three Plague Pandemics: 541 to ca. 1950 28
4 Plague as a Disease 40
5 Responses to Plague 58
6 Smallpox before Edward Jenner 83
7 The Historical Impact of Smallpox 97
8 War and Disease: Napoleon, Yellow Fever, and the Haitian Revolution 111
9 War and Disease: Napoleon, Dysentery, and Typhus in Russia, 1812 140
10 The Paris School of Medicine 168
11 The Sanitary Movement 184
12 The Germ Theory of Disease 204
13 Cholera 233
14 Tuberculosis in the Romantic Era of Consumption 269
15 Tuberculosis in the Unromantic Era of Contagion 292
16 The Third Plague Pandemic: Hong Kong and Bombay 332
17 Malaria and Sardinia: Uses and Abuses of History 357
18 Polio and the Problem of Eradication 385
19 HIV/AIDS: An Introduction and the Case of South Africa 408
20 HIV/AIDS: The Experience of the United States 429
21 Emerging and Reemerging Diseases 448
22 Dress Rehearsals for the Twenty-First Century: SARS and Ebola 466
Notes 507
Selected Bibliography 523
Index 551
