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Contents List of Entries Guide to Related Topics Foreword Preface Introduction - TK The Encyclopedia Glossary Bibliography About the Editors and Contributors Index Entry List Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. See Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/AIDS. AIDS. See Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/AIDS. AIDS in Africa AIDS in the U.S. AIDS, Literature, and the Arts in the U.S. Air and Epidemic Diseases Animal Diseases (Zoonoses) and Epidemics Animal Research Antonine Plague. See Plagues of the Roman Empire. Antibiotics Apothecary / Pharmacist Armstrong, Richard Arthropods. See Insects, Other Arthropods, and Epidemic Disease. Astrology and Medicine Avian Flu. See Influenza. Avicenna (Ibn Sina) Ayurvedic Disease Theory and Medicine Babesiosis Bacterium/Bacteria Bartonella Diseases Behring, Emil von Biblical Plagues Bimaristan Biological Warfare Bio-terrorism Bird Flu. See Influenza Black Death (1347-52) Black Death and Late Medieval Christianity Black Death, Economic and Demographic Effects of Black Death, Flagellants, and Jews Black Death: Literature and Art Black Death: Modern Medical Debate Bubonic Plague Bubonic Plague in the United States Bubonic Plague, Second Pandemic. See Black Death and related articles and Plague-related articles. Capitalism and Epidemic Disease Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. See Public Health Agencies, U.S. Federal Cervical Cancer. See Human Papilloma Virus and Cervical Cancer. Chadwick, Edwin Chagas Disease. See Sleeping Sickness. Children and Childhood Epidemic Diseases Childhood. See Children and Childhood Epidemic Diseases Chinese Disease Theory and Medicine Chlamydia. See Gonorrhea. Cholera Cholera before the Pandemics Cholera: First through Third Pandemics, 1816-1861 Cholera: Fourth through Sixth Pandemics, 1863-1947 Cholera: Seventh Pandemic, 1961-present Cinema and Epidemic Disease Colonialism and Epidemic Disease Conjunctivitis Consumption. See Tuberculosis. Contagion and Transmission Contagion Theory of Disease Cordon Sanitaire Corpses and Epidemic Disease Demographic Data Collection and Analysis, History of Dengue Fever. See Hemorrhagic Fevers; Hemorrhagic Fevers in Modern Africa. Diagnosis and Diagnostic Tools Diagnosis of Historical Diseases Diagnostic Tools. See Diagnosis and Diagnostic Tools. Diet, Nutrition, and Epidemic Disease Diphtheria Disease in the Pre-Columbian Americas Disease, Social Construction of Disinfection and Fumigation Doctor. See Empiric; Physician; Quack; Surgeon. Drug Resistance in Microorganisms Dysentery Early Humans, Infectious Diseases in Ebola. See Hemorrhagic Fevers; Hemorrhagic Fevers in Modern Africa. Ecology. See Environment, Ecology, and Epidemic Disease. Ectoparasites Ehrlich, Paul Empiric Encephalitis Encephalitis, Epidemic Outbreaks in the Twentieth Century Enders, John Franklin Enteric Fevers Environment, Ecology, and Epidemic Disease Epidemic and Pandemic Epidemiology Epidemiology, History of Ergotism Ethnicity. See Race, Ethnicity, and Epidemic Disease Farr, William Fernel, Jean Film. See Cinema and Epidemic Disease First Plague Pandemic. See Plague of Justinian. Flagellants. See Black Death, Flagellants, and Jews. Flight Flu. See Influenza. Folk Medicine Fracastoro, Girolamo French Disease. See Syphilis Frost, W. H. Fumigation. See Disinfection, Fumigation and Epidemic Disease. Galen Geopolitics, International Relations, and Epidemic Disease Germ Theory of Disease Gonorrhea Gorgas, William C. Great Plague of London. See London, Great Plague of. Great Pox. See Syphilis Greco-Roman Medical Theories and Practices Haffkine, Waldemar Hansen, Gerhard Armauer Hansen's Disease. See Leprosy Hantavirus. See Hemorrhagic Fevers; Hemorrhagic Fevers in Modern Africa. Hemorrhagic Fevers Hemorrhagic Fevers in Modern Africa Henderson, D. A. Hepatitis Heredity and Epidemic Disease Hippocrates and the Hippocratic Corpus Hippocratic Corpus. See Hippocrates. Historical Epidemiology HIV/AIDS. See Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/AIDS Hospitals and Medical Education in Britain and the U.S. Hospitals since 1900 Hospitals to 1900 Human Body Human Immunity and Resistance to Disease Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/AIDS Human Papilloma Virus and Cervical Cancer Human Subjects Research Humoral Theory Immunity. See Human Immunity and Resistance to Disease Immunization. See Vaccination and Inoculation Immunology Industrial Revolution Industrialization and Epidemic Disease Infantile Paralysis. See Poliomyelitis. Influenza Influenza Pandemic, 1889-90 Influenza Pandemic, 1918-19 Inoculation. See Vaccination and Inoculation. Insect Infestations Insects, Other Arthropods, and Epidemic Disease Insecticide. See Pesticide. International Health Agencies and Conventions Irish Potato Famine and Epidemic Diseases, 1845-50 Islamic Disease Theory and Medicine Jenner, Edward Jews. See Biblical Plagues; Black Death, Flagellants, and Jews Kitasato, Shibasaburo Koch, Robert Lassa Fever. See Hemorrhagic Fevers; Hemorrhagic Fevers in Africa. Latin America, Colonial: Effects of Imported Diseases Laveran, Alphonse Lazaretto. See Leprosarium; Pest Houses and Lazarettos. Leeuwenhoek, Antony van Legionnaires' Disease Leprosarium Leprosy Leprosy in the Pre-modern World Leprosy in the United States Leprosy, Societal Reactions to Literature, Disease in Modern London, Great Plague of (1665) Lyme Disease Magic and Healing Malaria Malaria and Modern Military History Malaria in Africa Malaria in Medieval and Early Modern Europe Malaria in the Ancient World Malaria in the Americas Mallon, Mary Malthusianism Manson, Patrick Marburg Virus. See Hemorrhagic Fevers; Hemorrhagic Fevers in Modern Africa. Mather, Increase and Cotton Measles Measles Epidemic in Fiji (1875) and Eugenics Measles in the Colonial Americas Measles, Global Effort to Eradicate Media. See News Media and Epidemic Disease; Popular Media and Epidemic Disease: Recent Trends Medical Education in the West, 1100-1500 Medical Education in the West, 1500-1900 Medical Education in the West, 1900- . See Hospitals and Medical Education since 1900 Medical Ethics and Epidemic Disease Meningitis Miasma Theory. See Air and Epidemic Diseases Microscope Military. See War, the Military and Epidemic Disease Napoleonic Wars Neolithic Revolution News Media and Epidemic Disease Nicolle, Charles Non-Governmental Agencies (NGOs) and Epidemic Disease Nurses and Nursing Paleopathology Pan American Health Organization. See International Health Agencies and Conventions. Pandemic. See Epidemic. Panspermia Theory Paracelsianism Paracelsus Pasteur, Louis Penicillin Personal Hygiene and Epidemic Disease Personal Liberty and Public Health Pertussis. See Whooping Cough. Pest Houses and Lazarettos Pesticides Pettenkofer, Max Joseph von Pharmaceutical Industry Pharmacist. See Apothecary / Pharmacist Phthisis. See Tuberculosis Physician Pilgrimage and Epidemic Disease Pilgrims. See Pilgrimage. Pink Eye. See Conjunctivitis. Plague and Developments in Public Health, 1348-1600 Plague in Africa: Third Pandemic Plague in Britain (1500-1647) Plague in China Plague in East Asia: Third Pandemic Plague in Europe, 1500-1770s Plague in India and Oceania: Third Pandemic Plague in Medieval Europe, 1360-1500 Plague in San Francisco, 1900-1908 Plague in the Contemporary World Plague in the Islamic World, 1360-1500 Plague in the Islamic World, 1500-1850 Plague Literature and Art, Early Modern European Plague Memorials Plague of Athens Plague of Cyprian. See Plagues of the Roman Empire Plague of Justinian, First Pandemic Plague: End of the Second Pandemic Plagues of the Roman Empire Plagues of the Roman Republic Pneumonic and Septicemic Plague Pneumonic Plague in Surat, Gujarat, India, 1994 Poison Libels and Epidemic Disease Polio. See Poliomyelitis Poliomyelitis Poliomyelitis and American Popular Culture Poliomyelitis, Campaign against Popular Media and Epidemic Disease: Recent Trends Poverty, Wealth, and Epidemic Disease Press. See News Media and Epidemic Disease Protozoon, -zoa Public Health Agencies in the West before 1900 Public Health Agencies; Britain since 1800 Public Health Agencies, U.S. Federal Public Health Posters Public Health in the Islamic World, 1000-1600 Public Health Service, U.S. See Public Health Agencies, U.S. Federal Quacks, Charlatans, and their Remedies Quarantine Race, Ethnicity, and Epidemic Disease Red Crescent. See Non-Governmental Agencies (NGOs) and Epidemic Disease. Red Cross. See Non-Governmental Agencies (NGOs) and Epidemic Disease. Reed, Walter Reed Commission. See Yellow Fever Commission. Relapsing Fever Religion and Epidemic Disease Rhazes Rockefeller Foundation. See Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) & Epidemic Disease. Romanticism. See Tuberculosis and Romanticism. Ross, Ronald Rush, Benjamin S.A.R.S. See Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Sabin, Albert Salk, Jonas St. Vitus's Dance Sanitation Movement of the 19th Century Sanatorium Scapegoats and Epidemic Disease Schaudinn, Fritz Richard Schistosomiasis Scientific Revolution and Epidemic Disease Scrofula. See Tuberculosis. Second Plague Pandemic. See Black Death (and related articles); Plague: End of the Second Pandemic; Plague in Britain (1500-1666); Plague in Medieval and Early Modern China; Plague in Europe (1500-1770s); Plague in Medieval Europe, 1360-1500); Plague in the Islamic World, 1360 - 1500; Plague in the Islamic World, 1500-1850. Semmelweis, Ignaz Septicemic Plague. See Pneumonic and Septicemic Plague. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (S.A.R.S.) Sexual Revolution Sexuality, Gender, and Epidemic Disease Simond, P. L. Simpson, W. J. Slavery and Disease Slaves. See Slavery and Disease. Sleeping Sickness Smallpox Smallpox and the American Revolution Smallpox Eradication Smallpox in Canada and the United States since1783 Smallpox in Colonial Latin America Smallpox in Colonial North America Smallpox in Europe's Non-American Colonies Smallpox in Pre-modern Europe Smallpox in the Ancient World Snow, John Social Construction of Disease. See Disease, Social Construction of. Spanish Influenza. See Influenza Social Psychological Epidemics Sulfa Drugs Surgeon Sweating Sickness Sydenham, Thomas Syphilis Syphilis in Sixteenth-century Europe TB. See Tuberculosis Theiler, Max Third Plague Pandemic. See also Bubonic Plague, Third Pandemic in East Asia; Bubonic Plague, Third Pandemic in India and Oceania; Bubonic Plague, Third Pandemic in Africa; Bubonic Plague in the U.S. to 2000; Plague in China; Plague in San Francisco. Thirty Years War Trade, Travel, and Epidemic Disease Travel. See Trade, Travel and Epidemic Disease Trypanosomiasis. See Sleeping Sickness. Transmission of Disease. See Contagion and Transmission. Tuberculosis Tuberculosis and Romanticism Tuberculosis in England since 1500 Tuberculosis in North America since 1800 Tuberculosis in the Contemporary World Typhoid Fever. See Enteric Fevers Typhoid Fever in the West since 1800 Typhoid Mary. See Mallon, Mary Typhus Typhus and Poverty in the Modern World Typhus and War Urbanization and Epidemic Disease Vaccination and Inoculation Venereal Disease and Social Reform Virchow, Rudolf Virus War, the Military, and Epidemic Disease Water and Epidemic Diseases West Nile Fever White Plague. See Tuberculosis Whooping Cough World Health Organization. See International Health Agencies and Conventions Wu Lien Teh Yellow Fever Yellow Fever Commission, U.S. Yellow Fever in Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean Yellow Fever in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1830-1940 Yellow Fever in North America to 1810 Yellow Fever in the American South, 1810-1905 Yersin, Alexandre Zoonosis. See Animal Diseases and Epidemics. Guide to Related Topics Biological, Physiological, and Medical Theories Air and Epidemic Diseases Astrology and Medicine Ayurvedic Disease Theory and Medicine Chinese Disease Theory and Medicine Contagion Theory of Disease Disease in the Pre-Columbian Americas Disease, Social Construction of Folk Medicine Germ Theory of Disease Greco-Roman Medical Theories and Practices Humoral Theory Islamic Disease Theory and Medicine Magic and Healing Malthusianism Panspermia Theory Paracelsianism Biomedical Research into Disease Causes, Prevention and Treatment Animal Research Antibiotics Avicenna (Ibn Sina) Behring, Emil von Drug Resistance in Microorganisms Ehrlich, Paul Enders, John Franklin Fernel, Jean Fracastoro, Girolamo Galen Haffkine, Waldemar Hansen, Gerhard Armauer Henderson, D. A. Hippocrates and the Hippocratic Corpus Human Subjects Research Jenner, Edward Kitasato, Shibasaburo Koch, Robert Laveran, Alphonse Leeuwenhoek, Antony van Manson, Patrick Microscope Nicolle, Charles Paracelsus Pasteur, Louis Pettenkofer, Max Joseph von Poliomyelitis, Campaign against Reed, Walter Rhazes Rush, Benjamin Ross, Ronald Sabin, Albert Salk, Jonas Schaudin, Fritz Richard Scientific Revolution and Epidemic Disease Semmelweis, Ignaz Simond, P. L. Simpson, W. J. Sydenham, Thomas Theiler, Max Wu Lien Teh Yellow Fever Commission, U.S. Yersin, Alexandre Biological Causes of Disease Bacterium/Bacteria Ectoparasites Insects, Other Arthropods, and Epidemic Disease Protozoon, -zoa Virus Colonial Experience and Disease Colonialism and Epidemic Disease Latin America, Colonial: Effects of Imported Diseases Leprosy, Societal Reactions to Measles in the Colonial Americas Slavery and Disease Smallpox in Colonial Latin America Smallpox in Colonial North America Smallpox in Europe's Non-American Colonies Yellow Fever in Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean Cultural and Societal Effects of Epidemic Disease AIDS, Literature, and the Arts in the U.S. Black Death and Late Medieval Christianity Black Death, Economic and Demographic Effects of Black Death, Flagellants, and Jews Black Death: Literature and Art Cinema and Epidemic Disease Corpses and Epidemic Disease Disease, Social Construction of Flight Latin America, Colonial: Effects of Imported Diseases Leprosy, Societal Reactions to Literature, Disease in Modern Personal Liberty and Public Health Plague Literature and Art, Early Modern Plague Memorials Poisoning Libels and Epidemic Disease Poliomyelitis and American Popular Culture Popular Media and Epidemic Disease: Recent Trends Scapegoats and Epidemic Disease Tuberculosis and Romanticism Venereal Disease and Social Reform Diseases Animal Diseases and Epidemics Babesiosis Bartonella Diseases Bubonic Plague Cholera Conjunctivitis Diphtheria Disease in the Pre-Columbian Americas Dysentery Early Humans, Infectious Diseases in Encephalitis Enteric Fevers Ergotism Gonorrhea Hemorrhagic Fevers Hepatitis Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/AIDS Human Papilloma Virus and Cervical Cancer Influenza Legionnaires' Disease Leprosy Lyme Disease Malaria Measles Meningitis Pneumonic and Septicemic Plague Poliomyelitis Relapsing Fever St. Vitus's Dance Schistosomiasis Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (S.A.R.S.) Sleeping Sickness Smallpox Social Psychological Epidemics Sweating Sickness Syphilis Tuberculosis Typhus West Nile Fever Whooping Cough Yellow Fever Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Antibiotics Penicillin Pharmaceutical Industry Sulfa Drugs Vaccination and Inoculation Epidemics and Other Historical Disease Outbreaks AIDS in Africa AIDS in the U.S. Armstrong, Richard Biblical Plagues Black Death (1347-52) Black Death: Modern Medical Debate Bubonic Plague: Third Pandemic in East Asia Bubonic Plague: Third Pandemic in India and Oceania Bubonic Plague in the U.S. to 2000 Cholera: First through Third Pandemics, 1816-1861 Cholera: Fourth through Sixth Pandemics, 1863-1947 Cholera: Seventh Pandemic, 1961-present Diagnosis of Historical Diseases Encephalitis, Epidemic Outbreaks in the Twentieth Century Gorgas, William C. Hemorrhagic Fevers in Modern Africa Historical Epidemiology Influenza Pandemic, 1889-90 Influenza Pandemic, 1918-19 Insect Infestations Irish Potato Famine and Epidemic Diseases, 1845-50 Leprosy in the Pre-modern World Leprosy in the United States London, Great Plague of (1665) Malaria in Africa Mather, Increase and Cotton Measles Epidemic in Fiji (1875) and Eugenics Measles in the Colonial Americas Plague: End of the Second Pandemic Plague in Africa: Third Pandemic Plague in Britain (1500-1647) Plague in China Plague in East Asia: Third Pandemic Plague in Europe, 1500-1770s Plague in India and Oceania: Third Pandemic Plague in Medieval Europe, 1360-1500 Plague in San Francisco, 1900-1905 Plague in the Contemporary World Plague in the Islamic World, 1360-1500 Plague in the Islamic World, 1500-1850 Plague of Athens Plague of Justinian, First Pandemic Plagues of the Roman Empire Plagues of the Roman Republic Pneumonic Plague in Surat, Gujarat, India, 1994 Smallpox in Canada and the United States since1783 Smallpox in Colonial Latin America Smallpox in Colonial North America Smallpox in Europe's Non-American Colonies Smallpox in Pre-modern Europe Smallpox in the Ancient World Syphilis in Sixteenth-century Europe Tuberculosis in England since 1500 Tuberculosis in North America since 1800 Tuberculosis in the Contemporary World Typhoid Fever in the West since 1800 Yellow Fever in Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean Yellow Fever in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1830-present Yellow Fever in North America to 1810 Yellow Fever in the American South, 1810-1905 Epidemiology Chadwick, Edwin Contagion and Transmission Contagion Theory of Disease Demographic Data Collection and Analysis, History of Epidemic Epidemiology Epidemiology, History of Farr, William Frost, W. H. Historical Epidemiology Immunology Measles, Global Effort to Eradicate Paleopathology Poliomyelitis, Campaign against Snow, John Virchow, Rudolf Factors in Disease Outbreaks Air and Epidemic Diseases Capitalism and Epidemic Disease Children and Childhood Epidemic Diseases Contagion and Transmission Corpses and Epidemic Disease Diet, Nutrition, and Epidemic Disease Disease, Social Construction of Drug Resistance in Microorganisms Environment, Ecology, and Epidemic Disease Personal Hygiene and Epidemic Disease Geopolitics, International Relations, and Epidemic Disease Heredity and Epidemic Disease Human Immunity and Resistance to Disease Industrial Revolution Industrialization and Epidemic Disease Mallon, Mary Neolithic Revolution Personal Hygiene and Epidemic Disease Poverty, Wealth, and Epidemic Disease Race, Ethnicity, and Epidemic Disease Sexual Revolution Sexuality, Gender, and Epidemic Disease Slavery and Disease Trade, Travel, and Epidemic Disease Typhus and Poverty in the Modern World Urbanization and Epidemic Disease Water and Epidemic Diseases Institutions Bimaristan Hospitals and Medical Education in Britain and the U.S. Hospitals since 1900 Hospitals to 1900 Leprosarium Pest Houses and Lazarettos Sanatorium Medical Personnel Apothecary / Pharmacist Diagnosis and Diagnostic Tools Empiric Medical Education in the West, 1100-1500 Medical Education in the West, 1500-1900 Hospitals and Medical Education in Britain and the U.S. Medical Ethics and Epidemic Disease Nurses and Nursing Physician Quacks, Charlatans, and their Remedies Surgeon Public Health Cordon Sanitaire Demographic Data Collection and Analysis, History of Disinfection and Fumigation Gorgas, William C. International Health Agencies and Conventions Non-Governmental Agencies (NGOs) and Epidemic Disease Personal Liberty and Public Health Pesticides Plague and Developments in Public Health, 1348-1600 Public Health Agencies in the West before 1900 Public Health Agencies; Britain since 1800 Public Health Agencies, U.S. Federal Public Health in the Islamic World, 1000-1600 Public Health Posters Quarantine Sanitation Movement of the 19th Century Smallpox Eradication Vaccination and Inoculation Religion Biblical Plagues Black Death and Late Medieval Christianity Black Death, Flagellants, and Jews Islamic Disease Theory and Medicine Leprosy, Societal Reactions to Magic and Healing Pilgrimage and Epidemic Disease Religion and Epidemic Disease Slavery Colonialism and Epidemic Disease Civil War, American Latin America, Colonial: Effects of Imported Diseases Measles in the Colonial Americas Race, Ethnicity, and Epidemic Disease Scapegoats and Epidemic Disease Slavery and Disease Smallpox in Colonial Latin America Smallpox in Colonial North America Smallpox in Europe's Non-American Colonies Yellow Fever in Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean Yellow Fever in North America to 1810 Yellow Fever in the American South, 1810-1905 War Biological Warfare Bio-terrorism Civil War, American Colonialism and Epidemic Disease Malaria and Modern Military History Napoleonic Wars Smallpox and the American Revolution Thirty Years War Typhus and War War, the Military, and Epidemic Disease
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Epidemics -- Encyclopedias.
Communicable diseases -- Encyclopedias.
Disease Outbreaks -- Encyclopedias -- English.
Communicable Diseases -- Encyclopedias -- English.