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Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction Christian W. McMillen (Associate professor of history, Associate professor of history, University of Virginia)

Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction By Christian W. McMillen (Associate professor of history, Associate professor of history, University of Virginia)

Summary

A concise and comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, including plague, tubercolosis, smallpox, malaria, cholera, and HIV.

Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction Summary

Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction by Christian W. McMillen (Associate professor of history, Associate professor of history, University of Virginia)

The 2014 Ebola epidemic demonstrated the power of pandemics and their ability not only to destroy lives locally but also to capture the imagination and terrify the world. Christian W. McMillen provides a concise yet comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, illustrating how pandemic disease has shaped history and, at the same time, social behavior has influenced pandemic disease. Extremely interesting from a medical standpoint, the study of pandemics also provides unexpected, broader insights into culture and politics. This Very Short Introduction describes history's major pandemics - plague, tuberculosis, malaria, smallpox, cholera, influenza, and HIV/AIDS - highlighting how each disease's biological characteristics affected its pandemic development. McMillen discusses state responses to pandemics, such as quarantine, isolation, travel restrictions, and other forms of social control, and pays special attention to the rise of public health and the explosion of medical research in the wake of pandemics, especially as the germ theory of disease emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Today, medicine is able to control all of these diseases, yet some of them are still devastating in much of the developing world. By assessing the relationship between poverty and disease and the geography of epidemics, McMillen offers an outspoken and thought-provoking point of view on the necessity for global governments to learn from past experiences and proactively cooperate to prevent any future epidemic.

About Christian W. McMillen (Associate professor of history, Associate professor of history, University of Virginia)

Christian W. McMillen is Professor of History at the University of Virginia, where he teaches courses on American Indian history and the history of epidemic disease. He is the author of Making Indian Law: The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory and Discovering Tuberculosis: A Global History, 1900 to the Present.

Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1: Plague Chapter 2: Smallpox Chapter 3: Malaria Chapter 4: Cholera Chapter 5: Tuberculosis Chapter 6: Influenza Chapter 7: HIV/AIDS References Further Reading Index

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GOR010767638
9780199340071
0199340072
Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction by Christian W. McMillen (Associate professor of history, Associate professor of history, University of Virginia)
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20161208
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