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Discover the story of the disease that devastated the Victorian population and brought about major changes in sanitation Drawing on the latest scientific research and a wealth of archival material Amanda Thomas uses firsthand accounts blending personal stories with an overview of the history of the disease and its devastating after effects on British society This fascinating history of a catastrophic disease uncovers forgotten stories from each of the major cholera outbreaks in 18313 18489 18534 and 1866 Amanda Thomas reveals that Victorian theories about the disease were often closer to the truth than we might assume among them the belief that cholera was spread by miasma or foul air
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In 1831 an unknown horrifying and deadly disease from Asia swept across continental Europe and North America killing millions and throwing the medical profession into confusion A killer with little respect for class or wealth cholera ravaged the squalid streets of Soho and rocked the great centers of Victorian power In this gripping book Sandra Hempel tells the story of John Snow a reclusive doctor without money or social position whoalone and unrecognizedhad the genius to look beyond the conventional wisdom of his day and uncover the truth behind the pandemic She describes how Snow discovered that cholera was spread through drinking water and how this subsequently laid the foundations for the modern scientific investigation of todays fatal plagues A dramatic account with a colorful cast of characters The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump features diversions into fascinating facets of medical and social history such as Snows tending of Queen Victoria in childbirth Dutch microbiologist Leeuwenhoeks deliberate breeding of lice in his socks Dickensian childrens farms and riotous nineteenthcentury anesthesia parties An afterword discusses the new threat of infectious diseasesincluding malaria yellow fever and cholerawith todays global warming Copub Granta
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Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century as the plague had been for the fourteenth Its defeat was a reflection not only of progress in medical knowledge but of enduring changes in American social thought Rosenberg has focused his study on New York City the most highly developed center of this new society Carefully documented full of descriptive detail yet written with an urgent sense of the drama of the epidemic years this narrative is as absorbing for general audiences as it is for the medical historian In a new Afterword Rosenberg discusses changes in historical method and concerns since the original publication of The Cholera Years A major work of interpretation of medical and social thought this volume is also to be commended for its skillful absorbing presentation of the background and the effects of this dread diseaseIB Cohen New York Times The Cholera Years is a masterful analysis of the moral and social interest attached to epidemic disease providing generally applicable insights into how the connections between social change changes in knowledge and changes in technical practice may be conceivedSteven Shapin Times Literary Supplement In a way that is all too rarely done Rosenberg has skillfully interwoven medical social and intellectual history to show how medicine and society interacted and changed during the 19th century The history of medicine here takes its rightful place in the tapestry of human historyJohn B Blake Science
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An engrossing introduction for young adult readers to the chillingly topical subject of man vs microbe The Wall Street Journal nbsp Did the Black Death destroy medieval Europe Did cholera pave the way for modern Manhattan Did yellow fever help end the slave trade Remarkably the answer to all of these questions is yes Time and again diseases have impacted the course of human history in surprisingly powerful ways From influenza to smallpox from tuberculosis to yellow fever Bryn Barnard describes the symptoms and paths of the worlds worst diseasesand how the epidemics they spawned have changed history forever nbsp Filled with fascinating often gory details about disease and history Outbreak is a wonderful combination of science and history
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When Dr John Snow first traced an outbreak of cholera to a water pump in the Soho district of London in 1854 the field of epidemiology was born Taking the same public health approaches and tools that have successfully tracked epidemics of flu tuberculosis and AIDS over the intervening one hundred and fifty years Ernest Drucker makes the case that our current unprecedented level of imprisonment has become an epidemica plague upon our body politic Drucker an internationally recognized public health scholar and Soros Justice Fellow spent twenty years treating drug addiction and another twenty studying AIDS in some of the poorest neighborhoods of the South Bronx and worldwide Hecompares mass incarceration to other wellrecognized epidemics using basic public health concepts prevalence and incidence outbreaks contagion transmission and potential years of life lost He argues that imprisonmentoriginally conceived as a response to individuals crimeshas become mass incarceration a destabilizing force that undermines the families and communities it targets damaging the very social structures that prevent crime Sure to provoke debate this book shifts the paradigm of how we think about punishment by demonstrating that our unprecedented rates of incarceration have the contagious and selfperpetuating features of the plagues of previous centuries
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Following the Bureaus catastrophic encounter with the monstergod KathaHem Kate heads to France with hopes of bringing Roger back to life and Daimio reveals the truth about his death in the jungles of Bolivia The coming frog apocalypse heats up as Abe meets a secret society of Victorian cyborgs with ties to his origins and Lizs visions grow increasingly dire From Hollow Earth to King of Fearthe entire war on frogs in four volumes
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Following the Bureaus catastrophic encounter with the monstergod KathaHem Kate heads to France with hopes of bringing Roger back to life and Daimio reveals the truth about his death in the jungles of Bolivia The coming frog apocalypse heats up as Abe meets a secret society of Victorian cyborgs with ties to his origins and Lizs visions grow increasingly dire
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Plague The word itself is like a blow connoting misery miasma and death Plague takes many forms influenza typhus cholera the Black Death and recently AIDS AIDS has reminded us that epidemic infectious disease is not simply a historical phenomenonor one limited like famine to remote continents and is a vivid and painful illustration of how epidemics take place at a number of levels biological event social perception collective response and finally the individual the existential and the moralIn Time of Plagueexamines the many ways in which catastrophic infectious and contagious diseases are both biologically and socially defined In the politically charged age of AIDS In Time of Plague analyzes what past epidemics tell us about this new deadly virus How has the definition of disease differed throughout history How have new technologies and advances in epidemiology changed our perception and response to disease When has quarantine been appropriate or effective What norms should govern our thinking about responsibility culpability legality and confidentiality What does society owe the victims What in turn are the responsibilities of the carrier populationFeaturing essays by such distinguished scholars as Lewis Thomas Joshua Lederberg Dorothy Nelkin Sander Gilman Barbara Guttmann Rosenkrantz Baruch S Blumberg George Kateb and David A J Richards among others from a wide range of disciplines this work seeks to answer some of these pressing questions
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Plagues in World History provides a concise comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases including plague smallpox tuberculosis cholera influenza and AIDS Geographically these diseases have spread across the entire globe temporally they stretch from the sixth century to the present John Aberth considers not only the varied impact that disease has had upon human history but also the many ways in which people have been able to influence diseases simply through their cultural attitudes toward them The author argues that the ability of humans to alter disease even without the modern wonders of antibiotic drugs and other medical treatments is an even more crucial lesson to learn now that AIDS swine flu multidrugresistant tuberculosis and other seemingly incurable illnesses have raged worldwide Aberths comparative analysis of how different societies have responded in the past to disease illuminates what cultural approaches have been and may continue to be most effective in combating the plagues of today
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Plagues in World History provides a concise comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases including plague smallpox tuberculosis cholera influenza and Aids John Aberth considers not only their varied impact but also the many ways in which people have been able to influence diseases simply through their cultural attitudes Our ability to alter disease even without modern medical treatments is even more crucial lesson now that Aids swine flu multidrugresistant tuberculosis and other seemingly incurable illnesses have raged worldwide The authors comparative analysis of how different societies have responded in the past to disease illuminates what cultural approaches have been and may continue to be most effective in combating the plagues of today
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The Spanish influenza of 1918 was the deadliest pandemic in history killing as many as 50 million people worldwide Canadian federal public health officials tried to prevent the disease from entering the country by implementing a maritime quarantine as had been their standard practice since the cholera epidemics of 1832 But the 1918 flu was a different type of disease In spite of the best efforts of both federal and local officials up to fifty thousand Canadians diedIn The Last Plague Mark Osborne Humphries examines how federal epidemic disease management strategies developed before the First World War arguing that the deadliest epidemic in Canadian history ultimately challenged traditional ideas about disease and public health governance Using federal provincial and municipal archival sources newspapers and newly discovered military records as well as original epidemiological studies Humphries sweeping national study situates the flu within a larger social political and military context for the first time His provocative conclusion is that the 1918 flu crisis had important longterm consequences at the national level ushering in the modern era of public health in Canada
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Plague The word itself is like a blow connoting misery miasma and death Plague takes many forms influenza typhus cholera the Black Death and recently AIDS AIDS has reminded us that epidemic infectious disease is not simply a historical phenomenon or one limited like famine to remote continents and is a vivid and painful illustration of how epidemics take place at a number of levels biological event social perception collective response and finally the individual the existential and the moral In Time of Plagueexamines the many ways in which catastrophic infectious and contagious diseases are both biologically and socially defined In the politically charged age of AIDS In Time of Plague analyzes what past epidemics tell us about this new deadly virus How has the definition of disease differed throughout history How have new technologies and advances in epidemiology changed our perception and response to disease When has quarantine been appropriate or effective What norms should govern our thinking about responsibility culpability legality and confidentiality What does society owe the victims What in turn are the responsibilities of the carrier population Featuring essays by such distinguished scholars as Lewis Thomas Joshua Lederberg Dorothy Nelkin Sander Gilman Barbara Guttmann Rosenkrantz Baruch S Blumberg George Kateb and David A J Richards among others from a wide range of disciplines this work seeks to answer some of these pressing questions
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Following the Bureaus catastrophic encounter with the monstergod KathaHem Kate heads to France with hopes of bringing Roger back to life and Daimio reveals the truth about his death in the jungles of Bolivia The coming frog apocalypse heats up as Abe meets a secret society of Victorian cyborgs with ties to his origins and Lizs visions grow increasingly dire
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson battle a zombie outbreak that threatens to overwhelm London In 1854 a meteor streaked across Londons skies bringing with it a zombie plague For twenty years Her Majestys Secret Service kept the threat under control But now dastardly fi end Moriarty has begun using the zombies in an attempt to overthrow the Victorian Government Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson must face off against their favorite foe MI5 and zombies at the same time
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From the Translators Foreward Two plagues ravaged Europe in 1848 Asiatic cholera and the fever of revolution Giono who in The Horseman on the Roof exposed his hero Angelo Pardi to an earlier cholera plague in France now sets him wandering in the 1848 epidemic of revolution in the north of Italy
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Essays on the plague and cholera in Iran As well as quarantine influenza medical infrastructure geophagy and early steps toward veterinary medicine in Iran
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In the seventeenth century a map of the plague suggested a radical ideathat the disease was carried and spread by humans In the nineteenth century maps of cholera cases were used to prove its waterborne nature More recently maps charting the swine flu pandemic caused worldwide panic and sent shockwaves through the medical community In Disease Maps Tom Koch contends that to understand epidemics and their history we need to think about maps of varying scale from the individual body to shared symptoms evidenced across cities nations and the worldnbspnbspDisease Maps begins with a brief review of epidemic mapping today and a detailed example of its power Koch then traces the early history of medical cartography including pandemics such as European plague and yellow fever and the advancements in anatomy printing and world atlases that paved the way for their mapping Moving on to the scourge of the nineteenth centurycholeraKoch considers the many choleras argued into existence by the maps of the day including a new perspective on John Snows science and legacy Finally Koch addresses contemporary outbreaks such as AIDS cancer and H1N1 and reaches into the future toward the coming epidemics Ultimately Disease Maps redefines conventional medical history with new surgical precision revealing that only in maps do patterns emerge that allow disease theories to be proposed hypotheses tested and treatments advanced
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Justinians Plague the Black Death the Great Plague cholera influenza tuberculosis and AIDSthese diseases and others have devastated human lives and society for generations decimating populations creating panic and wrecking social and economic infrastructure In Epidemics Laid Low epidemiologist and historian Patrice Bourdelais analyzes the history of disease epidemics in Europe from the Middle Ages to the presentThis captivating account describes how populations respond to crises of disease and how authorities deal with the devastation afterward Bourdelais discusses the successes of northern European countries in fighting and controlling infectious diseases and emphasizes by comparison the failures of the countries in the south He links success to several factors ideology of progress economic development popular demands to improve public health and investment in medical research Bourdelais studies the social consequences of these policies the changes in the representation of epidemics the behaviors of populations and heightened tensions between advocates of individual freedom and those of collective interest Epidemics continue to threaten us today What do our responses to these threats say about our priorities Will the security of public health remain a privilege of a few powerful countries or will poorer countries benefit from the efforts of the rich to prevent the spread of disease inside their own borders
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