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Defining Documents in American History : Pandemics, Plagues & Public Health Cover Image Book Book

Defining Documents in American History : Pandemics, Plagues & Public Health

Shally-Jensen, Michael, (editor.).

Summary: "Plagues and pandemics are a part of global history, from the biblical 'plague of locusts' to today's COVID-19 pandemic. Dealing with unchecked diseases and disasters has given rise to great human suffering and loss of life, but it has also played a significant role in shaping our societies. Advances in public health, medicine, scientific research, and even the arts have often been inspired by or required of those who have survived. This two-volume set includes content on the Black Death, smallpox, the plague, malaria, typhoid, polio, SARS, AIDS, COVID-19, and others. Documents included in Defining Documents in World History: Pandemics, Plagues & Public Health comprise political speeches, newspaper articles, medical advances, legislation, arranged chronologically." --

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781642657333
  • ISBN: 1642657336
  • ISBN: 9781642657357
  • ISBN: 1642657352
  • ISBN: 9781642657364
  • ISBN: 1642657360
  • Physical Description: print
    2 volumes : black and white illustrations ; 26 cm.
  • Edition: [First edition].
  • Publisher: Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2020]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Publisher's Note -- Editor's Introduction -- Contributors -- VOLUME 1 -- SICKNESS UNTO DEATH IN EARLY TIMES : Thucydides on the Athenian Plague -- Requirements for a Physician -- Galen, Method of Medicine -- Plague of Cyprian: De Mortalitate -- On Fate and Providence, from The Consolation of Philosophy -- Procopius on Plague -- "On Experimental Science" -- The Black Death: Two Readings -- Decameron -- Statute of Laborers -- Florentine Chronicle -- Nostradamus on a Remedy for the Plague -- The Charitable Pestmaster, or, The Cure of the Plague -- From A Journal of the Plague Year -- An Historical Account of the Small-Pox Inoculated in New England -- Letters by James Oglethorpe on an Epidemic of Influenza in Savannah, Georgia, 1733 -- An Account of the Bilious Remitting Yellow Fever -- DISEASE IN THE INDUSTRIAL ERA : Report on the Typhus Epidemic in Upper Silesia (1947-48) -- On the Mode of Communication of Cholera -- An Emigrant's Narrative; or, A Voice from the Steerage -- National Quarantine Act -- From How the Other Half Lives -- Epidemic Diseases Act (British India, 1897) -- Pure Food and Drug Act -- Child Labor in the New York City Tenements -- Australian Quarantine Document -- Documents Relating to the Trudeau Sanitarium -- Notice to Alaskan Natives Regarding Flu Containment -- Plans for a Liberty Bond Parade during the 1918 Flu Pandemic -- 1924 Pneumonic Plague in Los Angeles -- Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 -- Streptomycin Experiment Notebook -- On the Polio Vaccine Situation / VOLUME 2 -- DISEASE IN THE MODERN ERA : "1,112 and Counting" -- ACT UP Founding Document and Speech -- Retraction of Lancet Paper on MMR Vaccine and Autism -- Reports Concerning the H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic -- On the Spread of the Zika virus to the Americas -- California's Vaccination Law -- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Interview Regarding the Coronavirus -- Remarks by President Trump and Vice President Pence on the Formation of the Coronavirus Task Force -- COVID-19 Brings Health Disparities Research to the Forefront -- SCOURGES OF WAR : The First Gas Attack -- The Effects of Shell Shock -- An Army Physician on the 1918 Flu Pandemic -- The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Nature of An Atomic Explosion -- Biological Weapons Convention -- SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND PUBLIC HEALTH : The Nature and Occasions of Intemperance -- Address before the Second Biennial Convention of the World Women's Christian Temperance Union -- Harrison Narcotic Act -- Volstead Act -- Alcoholics Anonymous "Big Book" -- Report of the Joint Committee of the American Bar Association and the American Medical -- Association on Narcotic Drugs -- Special Report: Smoking and Health -- Controlled Substances Act-Section 202 -- Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" Message to the Nation -- George Bush's Address to the Nation on National Drug Control Strategy -- Testimony from the 1994 Tobacco Hearings -- Statement and News Release regarding Purdue OxyContin Case -- APPENDIXES : Chronological List -- Web Resources -- Bibliography -- Index.
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