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Plagues and epidemics : infected spaces past and present / edited by D. Ann Herring and Alan C. Swedlund.

Contributor(s): Herring, D. Ann, 1951- | Swedlund, Alan C
Publisher: Oxford : Berg, 2010.Description: xii, 417 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781847885487; 9781847885470 (pbk.)ISSN: 1475-536XDDC classification: 614.4
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Charles L. Briggs -- 4.On creating epidemics, plagues and other wartime alarums and excursions: enumerating versus estimating civilian mortality in Iraq -- James Trostle -- 5.Avian influenza and the third epidemiological transition -- Ron Barrett -- 6.Deconstructing an epidemic: Cholera in Gibraltar -- Lawrence A. Sawchuk -- 7.The end of plague? TB in New Zealand -- Judith Littleton, Julie Park and Linda Bryder -- 8.Epidemics and time: Influenza and tuberculosis during and after the 1918-19 pandemic -- Andrew Noymer -- 9.Everyday mortality in the time of plague: Ordinary people under extraordinary circumstances in Massachusetts before and during the 1918 flu epidemic -- Alan C. Swedlund -- 10.The coming plague of avian influenza -- D. Ann Herring and Stacy Lockerbie -- 11.Past into present: History and the making of knowledge about HIV/AIDS and Aboriginal people -- Mary-Ellen Kelm -- 12.Accounting for epidemics: Mathematical modeling and anthropology -- Steven M. Goodreau -- 13.Social inequalities and dengue transmission in Latin America -- Arachu Castro, Yasmin Khawja, James Johnston -- 14.From plague, an epidemic comes: Recounting disease as contamination and configuration -- Warwick Anderson -- 15.Making plagues visible: Yellow fever, hookworm, Chagas Disease, 1900-1950 -- Ilana Löwy -- 16.Malaria eradication's metaphors in cold war Mexico -- Marcos Cueto -- 17.'Steady with custom': Mediating HIV prevention in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea -- Katherine Lepani -- 18.Explaining kuru: three ways to think about an epidemic -- Shirley Lindenbaum .
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Charles L. Briggs -- 4.On creating epidemics, plagues and other wartime alarums and excursions: enumerating versus estimating civilian mortality in Iraq -- James Trostle -- 5.Avian influenza and the third epidemiological transition -- Ron Barrett -- 6.Deconstructing an epidemic: Cholera in Gibraltar -- Lawrence A. Sawchuk -- 7.The end of plague? TB in New Zealand -- Judith Littleton, Julie Park and Linda Bryder -- 8.Epidemics and time: Influenza and tuberculosis during and after the 1918-19 pandemic -- Andrew Noymer -- 9.Everyday mortality in the time of plague: Ordinary people under extraordinary circumstances in Massachusetts before and during the 1918 flu epidemic -- Alan C. Swedlund -- 10.The coming plague of avian influenza -- D. Ann Herring and Stacy Lockerbie -- 11.Past into present: History and the making of knowledge about HIV/AIDS and Aboriginal people -- Mary-Ellen Kelm -- 12.Accounting for epidemics: Mathematical modeling and anthropology -- Steven M. Goodreau -- 13.Social inequalities and dengue transmission in Latin America -- Arachu Castro, Yasmin Khawja, James Johnston -- 14.From plague, an epidemic comes: Recounting disease as contamination and configuration -- Warwick Anderson -- 15.Making plagues visible: Yellow fever, hookworm, Chagas Disease, 1900-1950 -- Ilana Löwy -- 16.Malaria eradication's metaphors in cold war Mexico -- Marcos Cueto -- 17.'Steady with custom': Mediating HIV prevention in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea -- Katherine Lepani -- 18.Explaining kuru: three ways to think about an epidemic -- Shirley Lindenbaum .