Plagues

06 Nov 2003 12:54

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Recommended:
• Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel
• Ewald, The Evolution of Infectious Disease
• Stephen Johnson, The Ghost Map
• Seth A. Marvel, Travis Martin, Charles R. Doering, David Lusseau, M. E. J. Newman, "The small-world effect is a modern phenomenon", arxiv:1310.2636
• William McNeill, Plagues and Peoples
• Hans Zinsser, Rats, Lice and History

To read:
• John Arrizabalaga, John Henderson and Roger French, The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe
• Noble David Cook, Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492--1650
• Alfred W. Crosby, America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918
• Bernard Dixon, Power Unseen: How Microbes Rule the World
• Laurie Garrett. The Coming Plague
• Huppert, After the Black Death
• Andrea Kitta, The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore
• George C. Kohn, Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence
• Morse (ed.), Emerging Viruses
• Andrew T. Price-Smith, Contagion and Chaos: Disease, Ecology, and National Security in the Era of Globalization (2008)
• Daniel T. Reff, Plagues, Priests, and Demons: Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New
• Heather Schell, "Outburst: A Chilling True Story about Emerging Virus Narratives", Configurations 1997, 5:93
• Justin K. Stearns, Infectious Ideas: Contagion in Premodern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean
• Verghese, My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS
• Priscilla Wald, Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative
• Watts, Epidemics and History: Disease, Power, and Imperialism
• Willis, Yellow Fever Black Goddess