Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgments
PREVENTION and CURE
Living Proof
Talk about Sick!
Bacterial Invasion
Viral Attack
Bugs and the Bloodstream
Lifestyle Choices and Chances
Why Soap and Water?
ANCIENT STORIES, MODERN DIAGNOSES
Wrath of the Gods
First Epidemics—or Not
The Plague of Athens
Death of a Demigod
Empire and Epidemics
Hippocrates and Galen—Miasmas and Humors vs. the Supernatural
THE MIDDLE AGES
(600–1500): SIN and SUFFERING
Leprosy: The Wages of Sin
The Black Death (1348–1351)
Living with Death
The Art of Death
So You Think You Can Dance?
The English Sweat
THE AGE OF DISCOVERY
(1500–1800): SICKNESS SHIP to SHORE
Smallpox Goes Viral
Contagion or Conquest? Old Diseases Meet New People
Inoculation, Vaccination, Extinction
Return to Sender: Syphilis and Scurvy
The Black Vomit aka Yellow Fever
Superstition to Science
THE INDUSTRIAL AGE
(1800–1900): PROSPERITY, POLLUTION, and PANDEMICS
Cholera: Death by Drinking Water
Ignaz Semmelweis and Florence Nightingale—Connecting Health and Cleanliness
Tuberculosis: What’s Romantic about Coughing and Spitting?
The Legacy of Louis Pasteur: From His Laboratory to the Sickbed
ANTIBIOTICS
BEFORE and AFTER
World War I and the Spanish Flu
Childhood Diseases
The Impact of Antibiotics
The Devastating Polio Epidemics
Meningitis
AIDS: A Modern Plague
GLOBAL VILLAGE
Jumping Species
SARS—Pandemic Panic
Biological Warfare: Then and Now
Are Your Vaccinations Up-To-Date?
Big Lessons from Pandemics
Glossary
