Chapter
Forecasting Storms, Predicting Plagues
Chapter 2 Plagues, the Price of Being Sedentary
Becoming Human, Becoming Parasitized
The Road to Plagues: More Humans, More Disease
The Effect of Agriculture
The Accident That Caused Societal Differences
Chapter 3 Six Plagues of Antiquity
Plagues and the Rise of Christianity
Chapter 4 An Ancient Plague, the Black Death
The Plague-Causing Bacterium, Y. pestis
Chapter 5 A Modern Plague, AIDS
HIV’s Target: the Immune System
The Social Context of AIDS
Chapter 6 Typhus, a Fever Plague
Discrimination and Dissemination
Typhus and the “Immigrant Problem”
Chapter 7 Malaria, Another Fever Plague
Cholera, Sanitation, and Public Health
Cholera and the “Immigrant Problem”
Chapter 9 Smallpox, the Spotted Plague
Vaccination and Its Social Context
Chapter 10 Preventing Plagues
The Nature of the Immune System
Inflammation and Innate Immunity
Antibody-Mediated Acquired Immunity
Clonal Selection Theory for Antibody Formation
Cell-Mediated Acquired Immunity
Attenuation and Immunization
Chapter 11 The Plague Protectors
Barbers, Bloodletting, and Antisepsis
Surgery, Disease, and Anesthesia
Chapter 12 The Great Pox Syphilis
The Pre-Columbian Origin of Syphilis
Syphilis and Its Social Context
Syphilis and the Social Reformers
Distribution and Incidence of Syphilis
Vaccines against Syphilis
Syphilis and AIDS in the Social Context
Chapter 13 The People’s Plague:Tuberculosis
The Disease of Tuberculosis
Chapter 14 Leprosy, the Striking Hand of God
Chapter 15 Six Plagues of Africa
Slavery and European Exploration
Stanley and the Scramble for Africa
Endemic Diseases of Africa
Chapter 16 Plagues without Germs
Searching for the “Germ” of Pellagra
Preventing and Curing Pellagra
Preventing and Curing Beriberi
Preventing and Curing Scurvy
Chapter 17 Plagues on Order
General Works on Disease and History
Chapter 1. The Nature of Plagues
Chapter 2. Plagues, the Price of Being Sedentary
Chapter 3. Six Plagues of Antiquity
Chapter 4. An Ancient Plague, the Black Death
Chapter 5. A Modern Plague, AIDS
Chapter 6. Typhus, a Fever Plague
Chapter 7. Malaria, Another Fever Plague
Chapter 9. Smallpox, the Spotted Plague
Chapter 10. Preventing Plagues
Chapter 11. The Plague Protectors
Chapter 12. The Great Pox Syphilis
Chapter 13. The People’s Plague: Tuberculosis
Chapter 14. Leprosy, the Striking Hand of God
Chapter 15. Six Plagues of Africa
Chapter 16. Plagues without Germs
Chapter 17. Plagues on Order
Power of Plagues, The
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