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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