World Health Crises
(see also World Health Crises: HIV/AIDS, Cholera, Influenza, Malaria, Obesity, Polio, Smallpox & Tuberculosis)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
Learning What is Known So Far About SARS. Houston Chronicle (4/27/03).
On the Web: Specialized Sites
Emergency Response Research Institute (ERRI).
World Health Organization (WHO).
WHO Communicable Disease Surveillance & Response.
In the Library: Articles
Borenstein, Seth. "A new age of germs," San Jose Mercury (5/13/03). Fast-changing modern world paves way for a variety of viral threats that can move quickly from one region to another.
Polgar, S. "Health & human behavior," Current Anthropology 3 (1962):159-205.
Post, John D. "Famine, mortality & epidemic disease in the process of modernization," Economic History Review 29 (1976):14-37.
Rosenberg, Charles & Others. "In time of plague: the history & social consequences of lethal epidemic disease," Social Research 55 (fall 88):321-528. Symposium.
Yoeri, Meir. "Animal infections & human diseases," Scientific American (5/60):161-.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Ackerknecht, Erwin R. History & Geography of the Most Important Diseases (NY: Hafner, 1965).
Aisenberg, Andrew R. Contagion: Disease, Government & the "Social Question" in 19th-C. France (Stanford, 1999).
American Geographical Society. Atlas of Diseases (NY, 19??).
Andreano, Ralph. The International Health Policy Program: An Internal Assessment (Madison: U. Wisconsin, 2001).
Arnold, David. Colonizing the Body: State Medicine & Epidemic Disease in 19th-C. India (Berkeley: U. of California, 1993).
Baldwin, Peter. Contagion & the State in Europe, 1830-1930 (Cambridge, 199?).
Bett, W.R. (ed.) The History & Conquest of Common Diseases (Norman: U. of Oklahoma, 1954).
Briggs, Charles L.; Paul Farmer & Catherine A. Christen. Infectious Diseases & Social Inequality in Latin America: From Hemispheric Insecurity to Global Cooperation (Washington: Wilson Center, 1999).
Burnet, Macfarlane & David O. White. Natural History of Infectious Disease (Cambridge, 1972).
Chase, Allen. Magic Shots: A Human & Scientific Account of the Long & Continuing Struggle to Eradicate Infectious Diseases by Vaccination (NY, 1987).
Clemow, Frank G. The Geography of Disease (Cambridge, 1903). Still valuable world-wide survey.
Cockburn, Aidan. The Evolution & Eradication of Infectious Diseases (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1963).
Darmon, Pierre. L'homme et les microbes, XVIIe-XXe siècle (Paris, 1999).
Dowling, Harry F. Fighting Infection: Conquests of the 20th C. (Cambridge MA: Harvard, 1978).
Drexler, Madeline. Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections (NY: Penguin, 2003).
Farmer, Paul. Infections & Inequalities: The Modern Plagues (Berkeley: U. California, 1999).
Gale, A.H. Epidemic Diseases (Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1959).
Garrett, Laurie. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (NY, 1994).
__________. Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
(NY, 2000).
Grob, Gerald N. The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America (Cambridge MA: Harvard, 2002).
Gussow, Zachary. Leprosy, Racism & Public Health: Social Policy in Chronic Disease Control (Boulder, 1988).
Hartwig, Gerald; David Patterson & Others. Disease in Africa (?:?, 1978).
Hays, J.N. The Burdens of Disease: Epidemics & Human Response in Western History (New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers, 1998).
Henschen, Folke. The History of Diseases (trans. Joan Tate; London, 1966).
Hobson, Silliam. World Health & History (Bristol, 1963).
Hudson, Robert P. Disease & Its Control: The Shaping of Modern Thought (Westport CT, 1983).
Karlen, Arno. Man & Microbes: Disease & Plagues in History & Modern Times (Old Tappan NJ, 1996).
Kim, Jim Yong et al. (eds.) Dying for Growth: Global Inequalities & the Health of the Poor (Monroe ME, 2000).
Kiple, Kenneth F. (ed.) The Cambridge World History of Human Disease (NY: Cambridge, 1993).
Knapp, Vincent J. Disease & Its Impact on Modern European History (Lewiston NY, 199?).
Macleod, Roy & Milton Lewis (eds.) Disease, Medicine, & Empire (NY, 1989).
Markel, Howard. When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics that have Invaded America & the Fears They Have Unleashed (NY: Anchor, 2005).
Marks, Geoffrey & William K. Beatty. Epidemics (NY, 1976).
May, Jacques M. The Ecology of Human Disease (NY, 1958).
McNeill, William H. Plagues & Peoples (NY, 1976). Influential global history of epidemic disease.
Oldstine, Michael B.A. Viruses, Plagues & History (NY: Oxford, 1998).
Preston, Richard. The Hot Zone (NY, 1994).
Prinzing, Friedrich. Epidemics Resulting from Wars (Oxford, 1916).
Ranger, Terence & Paul Slack (eds.) Epidemics & Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence (NY: Cambridge, 1992).
Rosner, David (ed.) Hives of Sickness: Public Health & Epidemics in New York City (New Brunswick NJ, 1995).
Sanders, David & Richard Carver. The Struggle for Health: Medicine & the Politics of Underdevelopment (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1985).
Schneider, William (ed.) Rockefeller Philanthropy & Modern Biomedicine: International Initiatives from World War I to the Cold War (Bloomington: Indiana U., 2003).
Sen, Gita; Asha George & Pirostka Ostlin (eds.) Engendering International Health: The Challenge of Equity (Cambridge MA: MIT, 2002).
Shah, Nayan. Contagious Divides: Epidemics & Race in San Francisco's Chinatown (Berkeley: U. of California, 2001).
Simmons, James S.; T.F. Whayne, G.W. Anderson & H.M. Horack & Others. Global Epidemiology: A Geography of Disease & Sanitation (3 vols.; Philadelphia, 1944-1954).
Stamp, L. Dudley. The Geography of Life & Death (London, 1964). Introduction to world health problems.
Swedlund, Alan C. & George J. Armelagos (eds.) Health & Disease of Populations in Transition: Epidemiological & Anthropological Perspectives (Westport CT, 1989).
Taylor, Ian & John Knowelden. Principles of Epidemiology (London, 1964).
Turshen, Meredeth. The Politics of Public Health (New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers, 1989).
__________. Privatizing Health Services in Africa (New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers, 1999).
__________ (ed.) African Women's Health (Trenton NJ: Africa World, 2000).
Wallace, Robert B. (ed.) Maxcy-Rosenau-Last: Public Health & Preventive Medicine (Stamford CT: Appleton & Lange, 1998). Latest revised edition of standard text in field.
Wailoo, Keith. Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia & the Politics of Race & Health (Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina, 2001).
Walters, Mark Jerome. Six Modern Plagues & How We Are Causing Them (Washington: Island/Shearwater, 2003).
Watts, Sheldon. Epidemics & History: Disease, Power & Imperialism (New Haven: Yale, 1997).
Williams, Greer. The Plague Killers (NY: Scribners, 19??). Struggles against hookworm, malaria & yellow fever.
Winslow, Charles-Edward. Man & Epidemics (Princeton, 1952). General history of epidemiology & the public health movement.
Zinsser, Hans. Rats, Lice, & History: A Study in Biography (NY, 1935). Historical epidemiology of typhus.