Pandemics (Second Edition)
A Very Short Introduction
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9780197762004
Publication date:
05/03/2025
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184 pages
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ISBN:
9780197762004
Publication date:
05/03/2025
Paperback
184 pages
Christian W. McMillen
This Very Short Introduction describes history's major pandemics--plague, tuberculosis, malaria, smallpox, cholera, influenza, and HIV/AIDS--highlighting how each disease's biological characteristics affected its pandemic development. McMillen discusses state responses to pandemics, such as quarantine, isolation, travel restrictions, and other forms of social control, and pays special attention to the rise of public health and the explosion of medical research in the wake of pandemics, especially as the germ theory of disease emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Rights: World Rights
Christian W. McMillen
Description
The 2014 Ebola epidemic demonstrated the power of pandemics and their ability not only to destroy lives locally but also to capture the imagination and terrify the world. In 2019 and the years that followed, the coronavirus pandemic infected every continent and took the lives of millions. In this updated edition, Christian W. McMillen provides a concise yet comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, illustrating how pandemic disease has shaped history and, at the same time, social behavior has influenced pandemic disease. Extremely interesting from a medical standpoint, the study of pandemics also provides unexpected, broader insights into culture and politics.
This Very Short Introduction describes history's major pandemics--plague, tuberculosis, malaria, smallpox, cholera, influenza, and HIV/AIDS--highlighting how each disease's biological characteristics affected its pandemic development. McMillen discusses state responses to pandemics, such as quarantine, isolation, travel restrictions, and other forms of social control, and pays special attention to the rise of public health and the explosion of medical research in the wake of pandemics, especially as the germ theory of disease emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Today, medicine is able to control all of these diseases, yet some of them are still devastating in much of the developing world. By assessing the relationship between poverty and disease and the geography of epidemics, McMillen offers an outspoken and thought-provoking point of view on the necessity for global governments to learn from past experiences and proactively cooperate to prevent any future epidemic.
Christian W. McMillen is Professor of History at the University of Virginia, where he teaches courses on American Indian history and the history of epidemic disease. He is the author of Making Indian Law: The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory and Discovering Tuberculosis: A Global History, 1900 to the Present.
Christian W. McMillen
Table of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Plague
Chapter 2: Smallpox
Chapter 3: Malaria
Chapter 4: Cholera
Chapter 5: Tuberculosis
Chapter 6: Influenza
Chapter 7: HIV/AIDS
Chapter 8: COVID-19
References
Further reading
Index
Christian W. McMillen
Features
- Describes all the major pandemics in human history, including plague, tuberculosis, malaria, smallpox, cholera, HIV/AIDS, and COVID-19
- Deftly combines scientific explanations with historical and cultural analysis
- Deals with current discussions over epidemic disease, such as COVID-19, the Ebola epidemic, the Zika virus, and the continued concern about avian flu
New to this Edition:
- Includes a new chapter on Covid-19 and its global impact
- Places Covid-19 in its historical context, drawing parallels with past pandemics
Christian W. McMillen
Review
"With the recent surge of epidemic research and literature, this book distinguishes itself by being concise, precise, accurate, and effective. It is an introductory read that acts as both a summation of epidemic history as well as an invitation to dive deeper into the ongoing understanding of epidemics." -- Alain Touwaide, Doody's Review
Christian W. McMillen
Description
The 2014 Ebola epidemic demonstrated the power of pandemics and their ability not only to destroy lives locally but also to capture the imagination and terrify the world. In 2019 and the years that followed, the coronavirus pandemic infected every continent and took the lives of millions. In this updated edition, Christian W. McMillen provides a concise yet comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, illustrating how pandemic disease has shaped history and, at the same time, social behavior has influenced pandemic disease. Extremely interesting from a medical standpoint, the study of pandemics also provides unexpected, broader insights into culture and politics.
This Very Short Introduction describes history's major pandemics--plague, tuberculosis, malaria, smallpox, cholera, influenza, and HIV/AIDS--highlighting how each disease's biological characteristics affected its pandemic development. McMillen discusses state responses to pandemics, such as quarantine, isolation, travel restrictions, and other forms of social control, and pays special attention to the rise of public health and the explosion of medical research in the wake of pandemics, especially as the germ theory of disease emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Today, medicine is able to control all of these diseases, yet some of them are still devastating in much of the developing world. By assessing the relationship between poverty and disease and the geography of epidemics, McMillen offers an outspoken and thought-provoking point of view on the necessity for global governments to learn from past experiences and proactively cooperate to prevent any future epidemic.
Christian W. McMillen is Professor of History at the University of Virginia, where he teaches courses on American Indian history and the history of epidemic disease. He is the author of Making Indian Law: The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory and Discovering Tuberculosis: A Global History, 1900 to the Present.
Table of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Plague
Chapter 2: Smallpox
Chapter 3: Malaria
Chapter 4: Cholera
Chapter 5: Tuberculosis
Chapter 6: Influenza
Chapter 7: HIV/AIDS
Chapter 8: COVID-19
References
Further reading
Index
Oxford Handbook of Medical Sciences- Third Edition
Robert Wilkins, David Meredith, and Ian Megson
Dali L. Yang
Urological Surgery-Second Edition
Suzanne Biers, Noel Armenakas, Alastair Lamb, Stephen Mark, John Reynard, Mark Sullivan, Kevin Turner, and Ben Turney
Handbook of Transradial Interventions
Dr Sanjay Kumar Chugh
The forgotten Art of Healing and Other Essays
Farokh Erach Udwadia
Debjani Das
Paula Murphy, Peter Lachman, and Bradley Hillier
Oxford Handbook of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Professor Stuart Bloom, Dr George Webster & Dr Daniel Marks
Oxford Handbook of Nutrition and Dietetics
Joan Webster-Gandy, Angela Madden & Michelle Holdsworth
