Cafe Book Display: Pandemics

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Plagues in World History

Plagues in World History provides a concise, comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases, including plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, influenza, and AIDS.

 Comparative World History

Plagues in World History

by Abert, John

Epidemics and Society

A wide-ranging study that illuminates the connection between epidemic diseases and societal change, from the Black Death to Ebola

In a clear and accessible style, Snowden reveals the ways that diseases have not only influenced medical science and public health, but also transformed the arts, religion, intellectual history, and warfare.

 Comparative World History

Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present

by Snowden, Frank M

Plagues and Poxes

It deals with the history of major outbreaks of disease - both infectious diseases such as plague and smallpox and noninfectious diseases - and shows how they are in many cases caused inadvertently by human actions, including warfare, commercial travel, social adaptations, and dietary modifications.

 Human Impacts

Plagues and Poxes: The Impact of Human History on Epidemic Disease

by Bollet, Alfred J.

The Great Influenza

At the height of WWI, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. The Great Influenza is ultimately a tale of triumph amid tragedy, which provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon.

 Influenza

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

by Barry, John M

Influenza and Public Health

This book investigates past influenza pandemics in light of today's, so as to afford critical insights into possible transmission patterns, experiences, mistakes, and interventions. ...from the infamous Spanish Influenza, the avian flu epidemic, and the novel H1N1 pandemic, to lesser-known outbreaks such as the influenza pandemic and the Hong Kong Flu.

 Influenza

Influenza and Public Health: Learning from Past Pandemics

by Giles-Vernick, Tamara and Susan Craddock

America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918

In this vivid narrative, Alfred W. Crosby recounts the course of the Spanish flu pandemic during the panic-stricken months of 1918 and 1919, measures its impact on American society, and probes the curious loss of national memory of this cataclysmic event.

 The Spanish Flu

America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918

by Crosby, Alfred

Stories in the Time of Cholera

Carefully documenting how stigma, stories, and statistics circulate across borders, this first-rate ethnography demonstrates that the process undermines all the efforts of physicians and public health officials and at the same time contributes catastrophically to epidemics not only of cholera but also of tuberculosis, malaria, AIDS, and other killers.

 Cholera

Stories in the Time of Cholera

by Briggs, Charles L, and Clara Mantini Briggs

Epidemics, Empire, and Environments

In this book, Michael Zeheter offers a probing case study of the environmental changes made to fight cholera in two markedly different British colonies: Madras in India and Quebec City in Canada. As Zeheter shows, complex political and economic factors came to bear on the reshaping of each colony's environment and the urgency placed on disease control.

 Cholera, Colonies

Epidemics, Empire, and Environments: Cholera in Madras and Quebec City

by Zeheter, Michael

Life and Death on the Volga

This book addresses fundamental issues about the last decades of Tsarist Russia, contributing significantly to current debates about how far and how successfully modernisation was being implemented by the Tsarist regime.

 Cholera, Tsarist regime

Disease, Health Care, and Government in Late Imperial Russia: Life and Death on the Volga

by Henze, Charlotte

John Snow

John Snow was a Victorian physician who helped to establish that cholera was spread by contaminated water (not bad air, as theory had it). He traced the source of a deadly cholera outbreak to one pump and was able to have it closed, ending the outbreak, despite deep resistance from the local authorities, who did not want to believe his theory.

 Cholera, People

John Snow

by Challoner, Jack

Deadly River

What had caused the first cases of cholera in Haiti in recorded history? Who or what was the deadly agent of origin? Why did it explode in the agricultural-rich delta of the Artibonite River? A French disease detective determined to trace its origins so that he could help contain the spread and possibly eliminate the disease—and the political intrigue that has made that effort so difficult.

 Cholera, People

Deadly River: Cholera and Cover Up in Post Earthquake Haiti

by Frerichs, Ralph R.

House on Fire

A story of courage and risk-taking

Part autobiography, part mystery, the story is told by a man who was one of the architects of a radical vaccination scheme that became a key strategy in ending the horrible disease when it was finally contained in India.

 Smallpox, People

House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox

by Foege, William

Understanding the Politics of Pandemic Scares

Reactions to pandemics are unlike any other global emergency; with an emphasis on withdrawal and containment of the sight of the infected. Dealing with the historical and conceptual background of diseases in politics and international relations, this volume investigates the global political reaction to pandemic scares.

 International Relations

Understanding the Politics of Pandemic Scares: An Introduction to Global Politosomatics

by Aaltola, Mika

Pandemics and Emerging Infectious Diseases

This agenda-setting collection provides international analysis of the pressing sociological concerns they confront us with, from cross-border coordination of public health governance to geopolitical issues of development and social equity.

 International Relations

Pandemics and Emerging Infectious Diseases: The Sociological Agenda

by Dingwall, Robert, Lilly M Hoffman and Karen Staniland

The politics of catastrophe

Politics of Catastrophe critically assesses the effects of these new practices of knowing and governing catastrophes to come and challenges the reader to think about the possibility of an alternative politics of catastrophe.

 Politics

Politics of Catastrophe: Genealogies of the Unknown

by Aradau, Claudia

Pandemics, Pills, and Politics

Pandemics, Pills, and Politics is the first in-depth study of the world's most prominent medical countermeasure, Tamiflu. It even found itself at the center of a prolonged political battle over who should have access to the data about the safety and effectiveness of medicines.

 Medicines Safety

Pandemics, Pills, and Politics: Governing Global Health Security

by Elbe, Stefan

Presidents, Pandemics, and Politics

This book is an examination of the manner in which American presidents respond to pandemics and other public health crises. Skidmore argues that presidential performance in dealing with emergencies and pandemics varies, but those who are informed, focused, and confident that government can work are most likely to be successful.

 US Presidential Performance

Presidents, Pandemics, and Politics

by Skidmore, Max

Pandemics, Publics, and Politics

This book analyzes the distinctive challenges that public health crises pose today. The challenges include fragmentation of media, tribalization of “knowledge regimes,” the increasingly troubled status of scientific and political expertise, growing cross-continental mobility, as well as the globalization and commercialization of pandemic response systems.

 Response System

Pandemics, Publics, and Politics: Staging Responses to Public Health Crises

by Bjørkdahl, Kristian and Benedicte Carlsen

Designing Our Way to a Better World

Envisioning what we need, when it doesn’t yet exist: this, Thomas Fisher tells us, is what design does. Fisher's approach reveals the power of design to synthesize our knowledge about the world into greater wholes. In doing so, this book opens up possible futures—and better futures—than the unsustainable and inequitable one we now face.

 Design Methods

Designing Our Way to a Better World

by Fisher, Thomas

Deadliest Enemy

We are facing an overwhelming army of deadly, invisible enemies. We need a plan-before it's too late.
Drawing on the latest medical science, case studies, policy research, and hard-earned epidemiological lessons, Deadliest Enemy explores the resources and programs we need to develop if we are to keep ourselves safe from infectious disease.

 Resources & Plan

Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs

by Osterholm, Michael T