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Plagues on the Internet
Plague Books in Local (Kansas City, MO) Libraries
Nichols H31.J6 ser.98:1
Alexander, John T.
Bubonic plague in early modern Russia: public health and urban disaster. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press; 1980.
Nichols R606.A75 1993
Arnold, David.
Colonizing the body: state medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India. Berkeley: University of California Press; 1993.
Nichols PR6052.A668 R4 1985
Barnes, Peter.
Red noses. London; Boston: Faber and Faber; 1985.
Nichols PR3097.B37 1991
Barroll, J. Leeds.
Politics, plague, and Shakespeare's theater: the Stuart years. Ithaca: Cornell University Press; 1991.
Nichols DA681.B4
Bell, Walter George.
The great fire of London in 1666.
Nichols BS1245.5.B4513
Ben-David, Eliezer.
Out of the iron furnace: the Jewish redemption from ancient Egypt and the delivery from spiritual bondage. New York: Shengold Publishers; 1975.
Nichols PQ4272.E5A39 1955
Boccaccio, Giovanni.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, translated from the Italian by Frances Winwar. New York: Modern Library, 1955.
Nichols RA649.B64 1987
Bollet, Alfred J.
Plagues & poxes: the rise and fall of epidemic disease. ; 1987.
Midcontinent Public Library 614.542 C127
Caldwell, Mark.
The last crusade: the war on consumption 1862-1954. New York: Atheneum; 1988.
A social, medical, and literary history of the White Plague. Note: TB figured in these literary works: Little Women, The Wings of the Dove, Long Day's Journey into Night, Midnight Cowboy. Also discusses how America's war on consumption helped amass authority and economic control over health care for the AMA.
Nichols RC178.I9 F6313 1989
Calvi, Giulia.
Histories of a plague year: the social and the imaginary in baroque Florence. Berkeley: University of California Press; 1989.
Note: Translated from Italian by Dario Biocca and Bryant T. Ragan, Jr.
Nichols RC211.P5 C28
Carey, Mathew.
A short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia. ; 1970.
Nichols RC172.C37 1986
Carmichael, Ann G.
Plague and the poor in Renaissance Florence. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press; 1986.
HSL WZ40.C329d 1972; Nichols R702.C37
Cartwright, Frederick Fox.
Disease and history.
Nichols RA424.C56
Cipolla, Carlo M.
Cristofano and the plague; a study in the history of public health in the age of Galileo. Berkeley: University of California Press; 1973.
Nichols HB1415.C6
Clarkson, Leslie A.
Death, disease, and famine in pre-industrial England. ; 1975.
Nichols HN475.C59 1992
Cohn, Samuel Kline.
The cult of remembrance and the Black Death: six Renaissance cities in central Italy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press; 1992.
Nichols E59.D58 S43 1991
Cook, Noble David and W. George Lovell, eds.
"Secret judgments of God:" Old World disease in colonial Spanish America. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press; 1991.
Nichols DA235.C69
Cowie, Leonard W.
The Black Death and the Peasants' Revolt. ; 1972.
Nichols DA681.C74
Cowie, Leonard W.
Plague and fire, London 1665-66.
Nichols GF50.C77 1994
Crosby, Alfred W.
Germs, seeds & animals: studies in ecological history. ; 1994.
HSL WZ290.D314j; Nichols PR3404.J6
Defoe, Daniel.
A Journal of the Plague Year. New York: Heritage Press; 1968.
Note: Based on the original edition of 1722.
A memoir of the Great Plague of London in the year 1665.
Nichols RC179.I6 D64
Dols, Michael W.
The Black Death in the Middle East. ; 1977.
HSL WF200 .D817w 1952
Dubos, Rene; Dubos, Jean.
The white plague: tuberculosis, man and society. Boston: Little, Brown; 1952.
A good history of TB and the campaign to eradicate it.
Nichols RA650.5.D8
Duffy, John.
Epidemics in colonial America. ; 1972.
Nichols RA394.F67 1994
Foreman, Christopher H.
Plagues, products, and politics: emergent public health hazards and national policymaking. ; 1994.
Nichols CB357.F73
Friedell, Egon.
A cultural history of the modern age; the crisis of the European soul from the black death to the world war.
Nichols RA650.8.T8 G34 1983
Gallagher, Nancy Elizabeth.
Medicine and power in Tunisia, 1780-1900. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press; 1983.
Garrett, Laurie.
The coming plague: newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1994.
The story of various newly emerging diseases, how new diseases arise, or old diseases retreat and then reappear, and the difficulties of containing plagues.
Midcontinent Public Library J614.49 G355
Giblin, James Cross.
When plague strikes: the Black Death, smallpox, AIDS. New York: HarperCollins; 1995.
Written for young readers (adolescents).
Nichols RA650.6.G6 G67
Gottfried, Robert S.
Epidemic disease in fifteenth century England: the medical response and the demographic consequences; 1978.
Nichols HQ503.G68 1993
Gottlieb, Beatrice.
The family in the Western world from the Black Death to the industrial age. ; 1993.
Midcontinent Public Library 614.5 G861
Gregg, Charles T.
Plague! The shocking story of a dread disease in America today. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons; 1978.
Biochemist describes contemporary American cases of bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic plague, the potential for an epidemic spread by any one of the thirty species of plague-bearing fleas carried by one of thirty-seven species of animals, or spread deliberately as a terrorist weapon.
Nichols RA643.7 .G7 H37 1993
Hardy, Anne.
The epidemic streets: infectious disease and the rise of preventive medicine, 1856-1900. Oxford: Clarendon Press; 1993.
Chapters cover diseases: whooping cough, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, smallpox, typhoid, typhus, tuberculosis; the impact of local preventive medicine.
Henschen, Folke.
The history and geography of diseases. New York: Delacorte Press; 1966.
Pathologist weaves social history, paleontology, and art into this history and geography of diseases. The first section concerns infectious diseases: "some of the great fortunes in Europe were made importing Indian wood as a (doubtful) syphilis cure; in the influenza epidemic of 1918 50% of mankind succumbed to the disease; the spread of malaria is likely to have affected the philosophical outlook of Hellenic Greece; anthrax among the Hun tribes and cattle may have saved Europe."
HSL HISTORY; Nichols Spec Col Snyder q614.45 H849a
Howard, John.
An account of the principal lazarettos in Europe; with various papers relative to the plague: together with further observations on some foreign. . . ; 1789.
HSL QZ40 .H868d 1979
Hoyle, Fred; Wickramasinghe, Chandra.
Diseases from space. New York: Harper & Row; 1979.
Presents the argument that viruses and bacteria responsible for infectious diseases arrive at Earth from space. Includes chapters on plagues and epidemics.
Nichols HN13.H86 1986
Huppert, George.
After the black death: a social history of early modern Europe. ; 1986.
HSL WA11.1.I35 1991; Nichols RA649.I5 1991
In time of plague: the history and social consequences of lethal epidemic disease. ; 1991.
HSL WC100 .I578e 1992
Institute of Medicine (U.S.)--Committee on Emerging Microbial Threats to Health.
Emerging Infections: Microbial Threats to Health in the United States. Washington, D. C.: National Academy Press; 1992.
Discusses how changes in human behavior and environment together with microbial adaptation and change lead to emerging infections.
Nichols F1219.J28 1994
Jackson, Robert H.
Indian population decline: the missions of northwestern New Spain, 1687-1840. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press; 1994.
Nichols RA650.7.J3 J36 1987
Jannetta, Ann Bowman.
Epidemics and mortality in early modern Japan. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press; 1987.
Nichols PQ2605.A3734 P432 1985
Kellman, Steven G., ed.
Approaches to teaching Camus's The Plague. New York: Modern Language Association of America; 1985.
Includes the essay "The Surgical masque: representations of medicine in literature" by Ailene S. Goodman.
Nichols PQ2605.A3734P436 1993
Kellman, Steven G.
The plague: fiction and resistance. New York: Twayne Publishers; 1993.
Literary criticism of Camus's The Plague.
Nichols HC254.3.L45 1974
Levett, Ada Elizabeth.
The black death. ; 1974.
HSL WA11.1.I35 1991
Mack, Arien ed.
In time of plague: the history and social consequences of lethal epidemic disease. New York: New York University Press; 1991.
Contains such chapters as: "Pandemic as a natural evolutionary phenomenon," "Placing blame for devastating disease," "Plagues and morality," etc.
Nichols RA1242 .M94 M38 1989
Matossian, Mary Kilbourne.
Poisons of the past: molds, epidemics, and history. New Haven: Yale University Press; 1989.
Charts the role of microfungi in food which poisoned people and caused illness, death, and mass psychosis. The theory that the Salem witch trials grew out of an ergotism outbreak is discussed, among other events.
McCormick, Joseph B.; Fisher-Hoch, Susan; Horvitz, Leslie Alan.
Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC. Atlanta: Turner Publishing, Inc.; 1996.
Note: not yet published.
Nichols RA649.M3
McNeill, William Hardy.
Plagues and peoples. ; 1976.
Midcontinent Public Library 614.49 M233
McNeill, William H.
Plagues and Peoples. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday; 1976.
Note: University of Chicago historian describes the dramatic impact of infectious diseases on the rise and fall of civilizations.
HSL WA11.AA1M9p 1989
Mullan, Fitzhugh.
Plagues and politics: the story of the United States Public Health Service. New York: Basic Books; 1989.
Black and white illustrations. History of U.S. Public Health Service, which has always had a role in preventing and containing epidemics.
Nichols E99.C13 P47 1992
Perttula, Timothy K.
The Caddo Nation: archaeological and ethnohistoric perspectives. Austin: University of Texas Press; 1992.
Nichols RC178.G7P52
The plague reconsidered: a new look at its origins and effects in 16th and 17th century England. Matlock, England: Local Population Studies; 1977.
Preston, Richard.
The hot zone. New York: Anchor Books Doubleday; 1994.
The true story of an outbreak of a deadly virus in Washington, D. C. and the secret military/scientific team sent to contain it.
Nichols RC171.R35 1985
Rail, Chester David.
Plague ecotoxicology: including historical aspects of the disease in the Americas and the eastern hemisphere. Springfield, Ill.: USA; Thomas; 1985.
Nichols E98.P76 R36 1987
Ramenofsky, Ann F.
Vectors of death: the archeology of European contact. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press; 1987.
Rosenberg, Charles E.
The cholera years: the United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 1962.
Medical, social, and intellectual history.
Midcontinent Public Library
Berton Roueche
The orange man and other narratives of medical detection. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1971.
Includes the story of the first case of bubonic plague contracted from urban tree squirrels (in Denver).
HSL WF11.R988 1992
Ryan, Frank.
The forgotten plague: how the battle against tuberculosis was won--and lost. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1992.
Nichols RA644.A25 S48 1988
Shilts, Randy.
And the band played on: politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic. New York: Penguin Books; 1988.
Nichols RC178.G7 S5
Shrewsbury, John Findlay Drew.
A history of bubonic plague in the British Isles. London: Cambridge U. P.; 1970.
Nichols RA644.P7S65 1985
Slack, Paul.
The impact of plague in Tudor and Stuart England. London; Boston: Routledge & K. Paul; 1985.
Midcontinent Public Library 944.025.T79
Tuchman, Barbara W.
A distant mirror: the calamitous 14th century. New York: Alfred A. Knopf; 1978.
Chap. 5: "This is the end of the world:" the Black Death.
Midcontinent Public Library 614.424 T922
Twigg, Graham.
The Black Death: a biological reappraisal. New York: Schocken Books; 1985.
Note: Dr. Twigg, zoologist, argues that the Black Death was not bubonic plague, but anthrax.
Nichols Gov Docs Y4.F76/1:C45
U.S. Congress--House--Committee on Foreign Affairs--Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs.
The cholera epidemic in Latin America: hearing before the Subcomittee. . . Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O.; 1991.
Nichols RA644.I6 A17 1992
van Hartesveldt, Fred R. , ed.
The 1918-1919 pandemic of influenza: the urban impact in the Western World. Lewiston, N.Y.: E. Mellen Press; 1992.
Midcontinent Public Library 614.4 W672
Williams, Greer.
The plague killers. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons; 1969.
Greer, assistant professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, describes the International Health Commission's campaigns against yellow fever, malaria, and hookworm, capturing the personalities of the scientists involved, and the romance of their quests.
Nichols PR2392.B6 188a
Wither, George--1588-1667.
Britain's remembrancer. New York: B. Franklin; 1967.
Reprint of the 1880 ed., which was issued as no. 28-29 of The Spenser Society.
Midcontinent Public Library J614.4 Y15
Yancey, Diane.
The hunt for hidden killers: ten cases of medical mystery. Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook Press; 1994.
Juvenile nonfiction about CDC and other health care workers and investigators "who put themselves at risk in a race against time and the threat of contagion as they search for answers" to medical mysteries.
HSL WC355.Z66b 1969
Ziegler, Philip. The Black Death. ; 1971.
HSL WC605 .Z6 1935
Zinsser, Hans.
Rats, lice and history; being a study in biography. . . Boston: Little, Brown; 1935.
How the poor sanitation in populated areas and the presence of vermin contributed to plagues that disrupted commerce, altered medical and religious practice, and transformed societies.
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