Cover

Copyright

Contents

Preface

1: The Legacy of Disease: Porphyria and Hemophilia

Porphyria

Hemophilia

Consequence

2: The Irish Potato Blight

Polotics and the Great Hunger

Bite of Blight

The Great Hunger's Cause

Consequence

3. Cholera

Cause

Containment

Quarantine

The Legend and Legacy of Florence Nightingale

Cure

Consequence

4. Smallpox: The Speckled Monster

Smallpox Spreads

Cause

"Catching" Smallpox

Control by Variolation, Eradication by Vaccination

Consequences

5. Bubonic Plague

Cause

Control by Quarantine

Concerns Past

Concerns Present

Consequences

6. Syphilis: The Great Pox

Origins

Clinical Signs

"Catching" the Great Pox

Chemotherapy

Resistance

Syphilis and the Social Reformers

Today's Concerns

Control

Consequences

7. Tuberculosis: The People's Plague

Origins

Discovery

The Disease

Prelude to Prevention

"Catching" TB

Antibiotics to the Rescue

A Vaccine for TB

Consequences

8. Malaria

Origins

The Disease

"Catching" Malaria

Control

Chemotherapy

The Elusive Malaria Vaccine

Consequences

9. Yellow Fever: The Saffron Scourge

The Disease

Failure to Control and the Luoisiana Purchase

"Catching" Yellow Fever

Successful Control and Construction of the Panama Canal

A Vaccine

Consequences

10. The Great Influenza

Cause

Drifting and Shifting Thwart Control

Pandemics and Pathogenicity

Control

Consequences

11. AIDS: The 1st Century Plague

Cause

A Crippled Immune System

Inherited Resistance

"Catching" HIV

From Pan to Pandemic

Chemotherapy

Failure To Control

Control by Behavior

Social Context

Consequences

Epilogue

Notes

Index