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The Cambridge Historical
Dictionary of Disease
Kenneth F. Kiple (Ed.)
Cambridge University Press, 2003.
The Cambridge World History of Human Disease (CWHHD) was first published by Cambridge
in 1993. The basis of this Dictionary is Part VIII, the last section of the work, that
comprises a history and description of the world's major diseases of yesterday and
today in chapters organized alphabetically from "Acquired Immune Deficient Syndrome
(AIDS)" to "Yellow Fever." The last section of CWHHD has been fully revised and the
essays have been condensed into shorter entries, with up-to-date information on AIDS,
Alzheimer's disease, Ebola, and Tuberculosis. The Dictionary also includes three chapters
from other parts of the CWHHD on "Heart-Related Diseases," "Cancer," and Genetic Disease."
Including contributions from over 100 medical and social scientists worldwide, the Dictionary
is a truly interdisciplinary history of medicine and human disease.
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Encyclopedia of
Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues
Joseph P. Byrne (Ed.)
Greenwood Press , 2008
From the Athenian flu pandemic to the Black Death to AIDS, this extensive two-volume set
offers a sociocultural, historical, and medical look at infectious diseases and their place
in human history from Neolithic times to the present. Nearly 300 entries cover individual
diseases (such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, Ebola, and SARS); major epidemics (such as the Black
Death, 16th-century syphilis, cholera in the nineteenth century, and the Spanish Flu of
1918-19); environmental factors (such as ecology, travel, poverty, wealth, slavery, and war);
and historical and cultural effects of disease (such as the relationship of Romanticism to
Tuberculosis, the closing of London theaters during plague epidemics, and the effect of
venereal disease on social reform). Editor Joseph P. Byrne, together with an advisory board
of specialists and over 100 scholars, research scientists, and medical practitioners from
13 countries, has produced a uniquely interdisciplinary treatment of the ways in which
diseases pestilence, and plagues have affected human life. Primary source sidebars,
over 70 illustrations, a glossary, and an extensive print and nonprint bibliography round
out the work.
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