Epidemics laid low : a history of what happened in rich countries

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    • Bourdelais, Patrice

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Epidemics laid low : a history of what happened in rich countries

Patrice Bourdelais ; translated by Bart K. Holland

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006

  • : hdc. : alk. paper
  • : pbk. : alk. paper

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Épidémies terrassées

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注記

Originally published: Les Épidémies terrassées : une histoire de pays riches : Paris : Éditions de La Martinière, c2003

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-167) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Justinian's Plague, the Black Death, the Great Plague, cholera, influenza, tuberculosis, and AIDS-these diseases and others have devastated human lives and society for generations, decimating populations, creating panic, and wrecking social and economic infrastructure. In Epidemics Laid Low epidemiologist and historian Patrice Bourdelais analyzes the history of disease epidemics in Europe from the Middle Ages to the present. This captivating account describes how populations respond to crises of disease and how authorities deal with the devastation afterward. Bourdelais discusses the successes of northern European countries in fighting and controlling infectious diseases and emphasizes, by comparison, the failures of the countries in the south. He links success to several factors: ideology of progress, economic development, popular demands to improve public health, and investment in medical research. Bourdelais studies the social consequences of these policies, the changes in the representation of epidemics, the behaviors of populations, and heightened tensions between advocates of individual freedom and those of collective interest. Epidemics continue to threaten us today. What do our responses to these threats say about our priorities? Will the security of public health remain a privilege of a few powerful countries or will poorer countries benefit from the efforts of the rich to prevent the spread of disease inside their own borders?

目次

Introduction to the English-Language Edition Introduction 1. The Plague Era From the Plague of the Philistines to Justinian's Plague The Black Death The Price of Growth Decisions to Protect Health Bad Air-or Planetary Misalignment? Flagellants and Pogroms The Danse Macabre and the Apocalypse 2. Modernity: New Concepts of the State and the Body Economies of Scale The Care of the Body A Cure at Any Cost The Decline of Mortality From Helvetius to Vicq d'Azyr Fresh Air and Clean Water Vaccination and the Elites Vaccination's Astonishing Success A Short-lived Success? 3. Cholera: The Return of Epidemic Disease and the Abandonment of Traditional Protective Measures Contagion or Infection? The Cholera Epidemic as a Natural Experiment Health through Isolation Disease as Population Control The Mobilization of Political and Technical Resources Turning Away from Traditional Protective Measures 4. The "English System": New Methods Gain Acceptance The English Initiative Cleanliness or Poverty? The New Quarantine The New Sanitary Frontier Social Stigmatization and Health The War on Syphilis Blaming the Victims: New Mothers 5. The Sanitary Reform Movement: From Miasma Theory to Departments of Health Sanitary Reformers Maternity Wars: Should They Be Closed Down? The Effects of Better Nurtition City Health Departments, 1879-1900 The Importance of Municipal Policies 6. Vaccination: A Powerful Paradigm Smallpox Vaccination: The Difficult Road to Acceptance Bacteriology and New Vaccines Pasteur's Laboratory Investigations Tuberculosis: Feared, Resistant, and Romantic The Twentieth Century: New Vaccines despite Theoretical Uncertainties Objections to Vaccination Organized Political Opposition 7. The Era of Spectacular Victories Bacteriology's Successes: Sulfamides and Antibiotics Victory over Tuberculosis Industrialization and the Expansion of Demand Government Programs 8. The End of a Dream? Resistance and Emerging and Re-emerging Infections The Thunderbolt: AIDS What about the Rest of the World? Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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