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This book is a major and wide-ranging study of the great epidemic scourges of humanity―plague, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, cholera, and yellow fever/malaria―over the last six centuries. It is also much more. Sheldon Watts, a cultural and social historian who has spent much of his career studying and teaching in the world’s South, applies a wholly original perspective to the study of global disease, exploring the connections between the movement of epidemics and the manifestations of imperial power in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and in European homelands. He shows how the perceptions of whom a disease targeted changed over time and effected various political and medical responses. He argues that not only did Western medicine fail to cure the diseases that its own expansion engendered, but that imperial medicine was in fact an agent and tool of empire.Watts examines the relationship between the pre-modern and modern medical profession and such epidemic disasters as the plague in western Europe and the Middle East; leprosy in the medieval West and in the nineteenth-century tropical world; the spread of smallpox to the New World in the age of exploration; syphilis and nonsexual diseases in Europe’s connection with Asia; cholera in India during British rule; and malaria in the Atlantic Basin during the eras of slavery and Social Darwinism. He investigates in detail the relation between violent environmental changes and disease, and between disease and society, both in the material sphere and in the minds and spirits of rulers and ruled. This book will become the standard account of the way diseases―arising through chance, through reckless environmental change engineered by man, or through a combination of each―were interpreted in Western Europe and in the colonized world.

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Epidemic exposes many of the hidden agendas in the historical formation of both Judaism and Christianity. Infected roots produce infected crops. The Reformation and Messianic Judaism are also examined. Which religion has "the most" paganism? A New Covenant Awaking is prescribed!

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In An Epidemic of Rumors, Jon D. Lee examines the human response to epidemics through the lens of the 2003 SARS epidemic. Societies usually respond to the eruption of disease by constructing stories, jokes, conspiracy theories, legends, and rumors, but these narratives are often more damaging than the diseases they reference. The information disseminated through them is often inaccurate, incorporating xenophobic explanations of the disease’s origins and questionable medical information about potential cures and treatment. Folklore studies brings important and useful perspectives to understanding cultural responses to the outbreak of disease. Through this etiological study Lee shows the similarities between the narratives of the SARS outbreak and the narratives of other contemporary disease outbreaks like AIDS and the H1N1 virus. His analysis suggests that these disease narratives do not spring up with new outbreaks or diseases but are in continuous circulation and are recycled opportunistically. Lee also explores whether this predictability of vernacular disease narratives presents the opportunity to create counter-narratives released systematically from the government or medical science to stymie the negative effects of the fearful rumors that so often inflame humanity. With potential for practical application to public health and health policy, An Epidemic of Rumors will be of interest to students and scholars of health, medicine, and folklore.

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Documents the effects of the deadly Spanish Influenza which swept along the United States' coasts during the last months of World War I.

"Duffy has done a vast amount of patient research and a careful job of writing. The product is a volume which throws a bright light upon the disease problems that vied with the Indians, the French and the British in making life uncertain and death a constant neighbor in America's cradle days." Journal of the Medical Association of Alabama

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Nungesser, an AIDS victim himself, talks with seven men who have AIDS about the impact the disease has had on their life and spirit, how they cope with it, and what it means to them. A radically honest and enormously moving book on one of the greatest medical and human tragedies of contemporary life.

The Hippocratic Epidemics and Galen's Commentary on them constitute milestones in the development of clinical medicine. However, they also illustrate the rich exegetical traditions that existed in the post-classical Greek world. The present volume investigates these texts from various and diverse vantage points: textual criticism; Greek philology; knowledge transfer through translations; and medical history. Especially the Syriac and Arabic traditions of the Epidemics come under scrutiny.

The Hippocratic Epidemics and Galen's Commentary on them constitute milestones in the development of clinical medicine. However, they also illustrate the rich exegetical traditions that existed in the post-classical Greek world. The present volume investigates these texts from various and diverse vantage points: textual criticism; Greek philology; knowledge transfer through translations; and medical history. Especially the Syriac and Arabic traditions of the Epidemics come under scrutiny.

Documents the effects of the deadly Spanish Influenza which swept along the United States' coasts during the last months of World War I.

Ann Jannetta suggests that Japan's geography and isolation from major world trade routes provided a cordon sanitaire that prevented the worst diseases of the early modern world from penetrating the country before the mid-nineteenth century. Her argument is based on the medical literature on epidemic diseases, on previously unknown evidence in Buddhist temple registers, and on rich documentary evidence from contemporary observers in Japan.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Print on Demand. This book examines the causes of the 1876 Savannah yellow fever epidemic, which killed almost 10% of the city's population. The author, who was present during the epidemic, argues that it was caused by a combination of meteorological, administrative, and topographical factors, including exceptionally heavy rainfall, neglect of the city's drainage system, and the presence of a large number of garbage and offal deposits within the city limits. The book also discusses the broader history of yellow fever in Savannah, and the various measures that were taken to control the disease in the years following the epidemic. The author's insights on the causes of yellow fever and the importance of sanitation are still relevant today and offer valuable lessons for preventing future outbreaks of this deadly disease. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book.