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Defining Documents in World History: Pandemics, Plagues & Public Health

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note




Editor’s Introduction




Contributors




Sickness Unto Death in Early Times




Thucydides on the Athenian Plague




Requirements for a Physician




Galen, Method of Medicine




Plague of Cyprian: De Mortalitate




On Fate and Providence, from The Consolation of Philosophy




Procopius on Plague




“On Experimental Science”




The Black Death: Two Readings




Decameron




Statute of Laborers




Florentine Chronicle




Nostradamus on a Remedy for the Plague




The Charitable Pestmaster, or, The Cure of the Plague




From A Journal of the Plague Year




An Historical Account of the Small-Pox Inoculated in New England




Letters by James Oglethorpe on an Epidemic of Influenza in Savannah, Georgia, 1733




An Account of the Bilious Remitting Yellow Fever




Disease in the Industrial Era




Report on the Typhus Epidemic in Upper Silesia (1947–48)




On the Mode of Communication of Cholera




An Emigrant’s Narrative; or, A Voice from the Steerage




National Quarantine Act




From How the Other Half Lives




Epidemic Diseases Act (British India, 1897)




Pure Food and Drug Act




Child Labor in the New York City Tenements




Australian Quarantine Document




Documents Relating to the Trudeau Sanitarium




Notice to Alaskan Natives Regarding Flu Containment




Plans for a Liberty Bond Parade during the 1918 Flu Pandemic




1924 Pneumonic Plague in Los Angeles




Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938




Streptomycin Experiment Notebook




On the Polio Vaccine Situation




Disease in the Modern Era




“1,112 and Counting”




ACT UP Founding Document and Speech




Retraction of Lancet Paper on MMR Vaccine and Autism




Reports Concerning the H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic




On the Spread of the Zika virus to the Americas




California’s Vaccination Law




Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Interview Regarding the Coronavirus




Remarks by President Trump and Vice President Pence on the Formation of the Coronavirus Task Force




COVID-19 Brings Health Disparities Research to the Forefront




Scourges of War




The First Gas Attack




The Effects of Shell Shock




An Army Physician on the 1918 Flu Pandemic




The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki:The Nature of An Atomic Explosion




Biological Weapons Convention




Substance Abuse and Public Health




The Nature and Occasions of Intemperance




Address before the Second Biennial Convention of the World Women’s Christian Temperance Union




Harrison Narcotic Act




Volstead Act




Alcoholics Anonymous “Big Book”




Report of the Joint Committee of the American Bar Association and the American Medical Association on Narcotic Drugs




Special Report: Smoking and Health




Controlled Substances Act—Section 202




Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” Message to the Nation




George Bush’s Address to the Nation on National Drug Control Strategy




Testimony from the 1994 Tobacco Hearings




Statement and News Release regarding Purdue OxyContin Case




Appendixes




Chronological List




Web Resources




Bibliography