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Health Crises throughout History (January 2022): Work Cited

Works Cited

Abraham, Thomas. Twenty-First Century Plague: The Story of SARS. Johns Hopkins, 2007 (CH, Jul’05, 42-6531).

Adler, Rich, and Elise Mara. Typhoid Fever: A History. McFarland and Company, 2016 (CH, Dec’16, 54- 1754).

Aral, Sevgi O., Kevin A. Fenton, and Judith A. Lipshutz. The New Public Health and STD/HIV Prevention: Personal, Public, And Health Systems Approaches. Springer, 2013.

Bailey, Mark. After the Black Death: Economy, Society, and the Law in Fourteenth-Century England. Oxford, 2021.

Bates, Barbara. Bargaining for Life: A Social History of Tuberculosis, 1876–1938. Pennsylvania, 1992 (CH, Oct’92, 30- 0956).

Benedictow, Ole Jørgen. The Complete History of the Black Death. Boydell & Brewer, 2021.

Bennett, Michael J. War against Smallpox: Edward Jenner and The Global Spread of Vaccination. Cambridge, 2020.

Bowers, Kristy Wilson. Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville. Rochester, 2013.

Breslin, Tony. Lessons from Lockdown: The Educational Legacy of COVID-19. Routledge, 2021.

Bristow, Nancy K. American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic. Oxford, 2017.

Brown, Jeremy. Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History. Atria Books, 2018.

Burns, Susan L. Kingdom of the Sick: A History of Leprosy and Japan.  Hawaii, 2019.

Bynum, Helen. Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis. Oxford, 2015.

Cohn, Samuel Cline. Cultures of Plague: Medical Thinking at the End of the Renaissance. Oxford, 2010.

Coronavirus Disease–COVID-19, ed. by Nima Rezaei. Springer, 2021. 

Coss, Stephen. The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revoluntionized Medicine and American Politics. Simon & Schuster, 2016.

Crawford, Dorothy H. Viruses: A Very Short Introduction. 2nd ed. Oxford, 2011 (CH, Jul’11, 49-6265).

Crawshaw, Jane Stevens. Plague Hospitals: Public Health for the City in Early Modern Venice. Ashgate, 2012.

Derickson, Alan. Black Lung: Anatomy of a Public Health Disaster. Cornell, 2014 (CH, Mar’99, 36-3933).

Dols, Michael W. The Black Death in the Middle East. Princeton, 2019.

Echenberg, Myron. Africa in the Time of Cholera: A History of Pandemics from 1817 to the Present. Cambridge, 2011 (CH, Nov’11, 49-1622).   

Fanning, Patricia J. Influenza and Inequality: One Town’s Tragic Response to the Great Epidemic of 1918. Mas-sachusetts, 2010.

Fessler, Pam. Carville’s Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice. Liveright, 2020.

Foege, William H. House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox. California/Milbank Memorial Fund, 2011.

France, David. How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS. Knopf, 2016 (CH, Jun’17, 54-4749).

Frerichs, Ralph R. Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up in Post Earthquake Haiti. Cornell, 2016 (CH, Nov’16, 54-1238).

Gessner, Ingrid. Yellow Fever Year: An Epidemiology of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture. Peter Lang Gmbh, 2016.

Grimes, Jill. Seductive Delusions: How Everyday People Catch STDs. Johns Hopkins, 2008.

Guinan, Mary E., with Anne D. Mather. Adventures of a Female Medical Detective: In Pursuit of Smallpox and AIDS. Johns Hopkins, 2016.

Henderson, John. Florence under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City. Yale, 2019 (CH, Jan’20, 57-1756).

Henze, Charlotte E. Disease, Health Care and Government in Late Imperial Russia: Life and Death on the Vol-ga, 1823–1914. Routledge, 2011.   

Honingsbaum, Mark. The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris. W. W. Nor-ton, 2019 (CH, Oct’19, 57-0607).

Hung, Fan, Ross F. Conner, and Luis P. Villarreal. AIDS: Science and Society. 5th ed. Jones and Bartlett Learn-ing, 2007.

Investigating Cholera in Broad Street: A History in Documents, ed. by Peter Vinten-Johansen. Broadview Press, 2020.

Kelton, Paul. Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs: An Indigenous Nation’s Fight against Smallpox, 1518–1824. Oklahoma, 2015 (CH, Oct’15, 53-0947).

Kent, Susan Kingsley. The Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919: A Brief History with Documents. Bed-ford/St.Martin’s, 2013.

Kotar, S. L., and J. E. Gessler. Cholera: A Worldwide History. McFarland, 2014 (CH, Oct’14, 52-0877).

____. Smallpox: A History. McFarland, 2013 (CH, Oct’13, 51- 0920).   

Leprosy and Identity in the Middle Ages: From England to the  Mediterranean, ed. by Elma Brenner and Fran-cois-Olivier Touati. Manchester University Press, 2021 (CH, Dec’21, 59- 1062.

MacKay, Ruth. Life in a Time of Pestilence: The Great Castilian Plague of 1596–1601. Cambridge, 2019.

MacPhail, Theresa. The Viral Network: A Pathology of H1N1 Influenza Pandemic. Cornell, 2014 (CH, Sep’15, 53-0280).

Manes, Claire, and Edmond Landry. Out of the Shadow of Leprosy: The Carville Letters and Stories of the Landry Family. University Press of Mississippi, 2013.

McNeil, Donald G. Zika: The Emerging Epidemic. W.W. Norton. 2016.

Miller, Timothy S., and John W. Nesbitt. Walking Corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West. Cor-nell, 2016 (CH, Nov’14, 52-1463).   

Moran, Michelle Therese. Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United States. North Carolina, 2007.   

Neustadt, Richard E., and Henry V. Fineberg. The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease, introd. by Joseph A. Califano. University Press of the Pacific, 2005.

Newton, David E. STDS in the United States: A Reference Handbook. ABC-CLIO, 2018 (CH, Nov’18, 56-1104).

Nolen, Stephanie. 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa. Walker & Company, 2007.

Oshinsky, David M. Polio: An American Story. Oxford, 2005 (CH, Dec’05, 43-2240).

Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death, ed. by Monica Green. ARC Medieval Press, 2014.

Pettit, Dorothy, and Janice Baille. A Cruel Wind: Pandemic Flu in America, 1918–1920. Timberlane Books, 2008 (CH, Jul’09, 46-6241).

Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History, ed. by Peter Furtado. Thames & Hudson, 2021.

Preston, Richard. The Hot Zone: The Terrifying Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus. Anchor Books, 1999.   

Quammen, David. Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus. W.W. Norton, 2014 (CH, Apr’15, 52-4247).

____. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. W. W. Norton, 2012 (CH, May’13, 50-5030).

Quinlan, Heather E. Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to COVID-19. Visible Ink, 2020.

Rawcliffe, Carole. Leprosy in Medieval England. Boydell & Brewer, 2006 (CH, Sep’07, 45-0478).

Reinhardt, Bob H. The End of a Global Pox: America and the Eradication of Smallpox in the Cold War Era. North Carolina, 2015 (CH, Feb’16, 53-2653).

Roberts, Charlotte A. Leprosy: Past and Present. University Press of Florida, 2020.

Roberts, Samuel Kelton. Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation. North Carolina, 2009 (CH, Mar’10, 47-4024).

Rogers, Naomi. Polio Wars: Sister Elizabeth Kenny and the Golden Age of American Medicine. Oxford, 2013 (CH, Jun’14, 51-5637).

SARS War: Combating the Disease, ed. by Leung Ping Chung and Ooi Eng Eong. World Scientific, 2003.

Sexually Transmitted Diseases, ed. by King K. Holmes et al. 4th ed. McGraw Hill, 2008.

Sexually Transmitted Infections and Sexually Transmitted Disease, ed. by Gerd Gross and Stephen K. Trying. Springer, 2011.

Shell, Marc. Polio and Its Aftermath: The Paralysis of Culture. Harvard, 2005 (CH, Nov’05, 43-1603).

Shilts, Randy. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic. St Martin’s, 1987.

Smith, Billy G. Ship of Death: A Voyage That Changed the Atlantic World. Yale, 2013 (CH, Apr’14, 51-4590).   

Snowden, Frank M. Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present. Yale, 2019 (CH, Apr’20, 57-2600).

Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19: New Perspectives, ed. by David Kilingray and Howard Philips. Routledge, 2003.

Varlik, Nükhet. Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347–1600. Cambridge, 2015.

Weeks, Benjamin S., and Teri Shors. AIDS: The Biological Basis. 6th ed. Jones and Bartlett, 2014.

Williams, Gareth. Angel of Death: The Story of Smallpox. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 (CH, Jan’11, 48-2719).

Willrich, Michael. Pox: An American History. Penguin Press, 2011 (CH, Aug’11, 48-6948).

Zeheter, Michael. Epidemics, Empire, and Environments: Cholera in Madras and Quebec City, 1818–1910. Pittsburgh, 2015.

Zika Virus Disease: From Origin to Outbreak, ed. by Adnan I. Qureshi. Academic Press, 2018.