Plagues & poxes : the impact of human history on epidemic disease / by Bollet, Alfred J.

Table of Contents: “…: smoking and epidemic cancer: a story of two presidents and a prince -- Rickets: the English disease -- Gout: the disease of good living -- Anthrax: from woolsorter's disease to terrorism -- Botulism: from bad food to terrorism -- The SARS epidemic: a new disease retraces the experience with older diseases.…”
CONNECT

Bacteria and bayonets : the impact of disease in American military history / by Petriello, David

Table of Contents: “…Seven A Nation Forged in Gout and expanded by Venereal Disease: A Medical Look at the Early RepublicEight Montezuma's Revenge: Disease and Manifest Destiny; Nine Johnny Dysentery and Billy Typhus: Disease and the Civil War; Ten Remember the Maine, to Hell with Yellow Fever: Imperialism and Illness; Eleven Love in the Age of Cholera, Warfare in the Age of Typhoid: Progressivism and Pestilence; Twelve Bullets, Bayonets, and Botulism: Biological Warfare in the Twentieth Century; Thirteen Al-Qaeda, Anthrax, and America: Terrorism and Disease in Post-Cold War America; Conclusion; Endnotes.…”
CONNECT