{"product_id":"epidemics-laid-low-a-history-of-what-happened-in-rich-countries-9780801882944","title":"Epidemics Laid Low A History of What Happened in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpidemics 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBourdelais covers heavily traversed grounds in public health history, though providing his own insights along the way. -- Linda Bryder Health and History 2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction to the English-Language Edition\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. The Plague Era\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Plague of the Philistines to Justinian's Plague\u003cbr\u003eThe Black Death\u003cbr\u003eThe Price of Growth\u003cbr\u003eDecisions to Protect Health\u003cbr\u003eBad Air—or Planetary Misalignment?\u003cbr\u003eFlagellants and Pogroms\u003cbr\u003eThe Danse Macabre and the Apocalypse\u003cbr\u003e2. Modernity: New Concepts of the State and the Body\u003cbr\u003eEconomies of Scale\u003cbr\u003eThe Care of the Body\u003cbr\u003eA Cure at Any Cost\u003cbr\u003eThe Decline of Mortality\u003cbr\u003eFrom Helvétius to Vicq d'Azyr\u003cbr\u003eFresh Air and Clean Water\u003cbr\u003eVaccination and the Elites\u003cbr\u003eVaccination's Astonishing Success\u003cbr\u003eA Short-lived Success?\u003cbr\u003e3. Cholera: The Return of Epidemic Disease and the Abandonment of Traditional Protective Measures\u003cbr\u003eContagion or Infection?\u003cbr\u003eThe Cholera Epidemic as a Natural Experiment\u003cbr\u003eHealth through Isolation\u003cbr\u003eDisease as Population Control\u003cbr\u003eThe Mobilization of Political and Technical Resources\u003cbr\u003eTurning Away from Traditional Protective Measures\u003cbr\u003e4. The \"English System\": New Methods Gain Acceptance\u003cbr\u003eThe English Initiative\u003cbr\u003eCleanliness or Poverty?\u003cbr\u003eThe New Quarantine\u003cbr\u003eThe New Sanitary Frontier\u003cbr\u003eSocial Stigmatization and Health\u003cbr\u003eThe War on Syphilis\u003cbr\u003eBlaming the Victims: New Mothers\u003cbr\u003e5. The Sanitary Reform Movement: From Miasma Theory to Departments of Health\u003cbr\u003eSanitary Reformers\u003cbr\u003eMaternity Wars: Should They Be Closed Down?\u003cbr\u003eThe Effects of Better Nurtition\u003cbr\u003eCity Health Departments, 1879–1900\u003cbr\u003eThe Importance of Municipal Policies\u003cbr\u003e6. Vaccination: A Powerful Paradigm\u003cbr\u003eSmallpox Vaccination: The Difficult Road to Acceptance\u003cbr\u003eBacteriology and New Vaccines\u003cbr\u003ePasteur's Laboratory Investigations\u003cbr\u003eTuberculosis: Feared, Resistant, and Romantic\u003cbr\u003eThe Twentieth Century: New Vaccines despite Theoretical Uncertainties\u003cbr\u003eObjections to Vaccination\u003cbr\u003eOrganized Political Opposition\u003cbr\u003e7. The Era of Spectacular Victories\u003cbr\u003eBacteriology's Successes: Sulfamides and Antibiotics\u003cbr\u003eVictory over Tuberculosis\u003cbr\u003eIndustrialization and the Expansion of Demand\u003cbr\u003eGovernment Programs\u003cbr\u003e8. The End of a Dream?\u003cbr\u003eResistance and Emerging and Re-emerging Infections\u003cbr\u003eThe Thunderbolt: AIDS\u003cbr\u003eWhat about the Rest of the World?\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527622402391,"sku":"9780801882944","price":38.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/epidemics-laid-low-a-history-of-what-happened-in-rich-countries-9780801882944","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}