Table of contents for The twelve : diseases that changed our world / Irwin W. Sherman.

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Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. The Legacy of Disease: Porphyria and Hemophilia
Chapter 2. The Irish Potato Blight
Chapter 3. Cholera
Chapter 4. Smallpox: the Speckled Monster	
Chapter 5. Bubonic Plague
Chapter 6. Syphilis: the Great Pox
Chapter 7. Tuberculosis: the Peoples Plague	
Chapter 8. Malaria
Chapter 9. Yellow Fever: the Saffron Scourge
Chapter 10. The Great Influenza
Chapter 11. AIDS: the 21st Century Plague
Epilogue
Notes
Index

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Epidemics -- History.
Diseases and history.
Disease Outbreaks -- history.
Communicable Disease Control -- history.
Communicable Diseases -- history.
History, Early Modern 1451-1600.
History, Medieval.
History, Modern 1601-.
Socioeconomic Factors.