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Index
The Power of Plagues
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 The Nature of Plagues
Living Off Others
Plagues and Parasites
Forecasting Storms, Predicting Plagues
The Evolution of Plagues
Chapter 2 Plagues, the Price of Being Sedentary
Becoming Human, Becoming Parasitized
The Road to Plagues: More Humans, More Disease
The Effect of Agriculture
The Lethal Gifts of Agriculture
The Accident That Caused Societal Differences
Chapter 3 Six Plagues of Antiquity
The Pharaohs' Plague
A look back
Search for the destroyer
Snail fever, the disease
Where snail fever is found
Snail fever today
The Plague of Athens
The Roman Fever
Plagues and the Rise of Christianity
The Antonine Plague
The Cyprian Plague
The Justinian Plague
Chapter 4 An Ancient Plague, the Black Death
A Look Back
Public health
Discrimination
Church
Medicine
Education
Economy and social order
Finding the Killer
The Disease of Plague
The Plague-Causing Bacterium, Y. pestis
Plague Today
Chapter 5 A Modern Plague, AIDS
A Look Back
HIV discovered
HIV's Target: the Immune System
HIV and AIDS
“Catching” HIV
HIV control today
HIV's Origins
HIV and the African connection
From Pan to pandemic: HIV-1
The genes of HIV
The sooty mangabey connection: HIV-2
The Social Context of AIDS
A Global View of AIDS
Chapter 6 Typhus, a Fever Plague
A Look Back
Typhus in People
Finding the Killer
A Lousy Business
Discrimination and Dissemination
Typhus and the “Immigrant Problem”
Typhus Today
Chapter 7 Malaria, Another Fever Plague
A Look Back
The Disease Malaria
“Catching” Malaria
Malaria Today
Prevention of Malaria
Genetic resistance to malaria: sickle cell trait and Duffy factor
The elusive malaria vaccine
Chapter 8 King Cholera
A Look Back
The Disease Cholera
Vibrio Discovered
Cholera and Evolution
“Catching” Cholera
Cholera Today
Controlling Cholera
Cholera, Sanitation, and Public Health
Cholera and Nursing
Cholera and the “Immigrant Problem”
Chapter 9 Smallpox, the Spotted Plague
A Look Back
The Disease of Smallpox
“Catching” Smallpox
Variolation
Vaccination
Vaccination and Its Social Context
Chapter 10 Preventing Plagues
Immune Defense
Acquired Immunity
Lock and Key
Antibody
The Nature of the Immune System
Inflammation and Innate Immunity
Antibody-Mediated Acquired Immunity
Clonal Selection Theory for Antibody Formation
Cell-Mediated Acquired Immunity
Attenuation and Immunization
Chapter 11 The Plague Protectors
Barbers, Bloodletting, and Antisepsis
Surgery, Disease, and Anesthesia
Disease, Dyes, and Drugs
Microbes Fight Back
Chapter 12 The Great Pox Syphilis
A Look Back
Spirochete Discovered
The Disease Syphilis
“Catching” Syphilis
The Pre-Columbian Origin of Syphilis
Syphilis and Its Social Context
Diagnosing Syphilis
Treating Syphilis
Syphilis and the Social Reformers
Distribution and Incidence of Syphilis
Vaccines against Syphilis
Syphilis and AIDS in the Social Context
Chapter 13 The People's Plague: Tuberculosis
A Look Back
Finding the Germ of TB
The Disease of Tuberculosis
Today's Diagnosis of TB
“Catching” TB
Controlling Consumption
Treating TB
Vaccination against TB
Where TB Is Found
Chapter 14 Leprosy, the Striking Hand of God
A Look Back
The Disease of Leprosy
Where Leprosy Is
Leprosy Today
“Catching” Leprosy
Chapter 15 Six Plagues of Africa
Slavery and European Exploration
Livingstone and Stanley
Stanley and the Scramble for Africa
Endemic Diseases of Africa
Sleeping sickness
River blindness
Guinea worm
Plagues Out of Africa
Yellow fever, the Louisiana Purchase, and the Panama Canal
Malaria and the American South
Hookworm and the American South
Chapter 16 Plagues without Germs
The Red Plague
Searching for the “Germ” of Pellagra
Preventing and Curing Pellagra
The White Rice Plague
Preventing and Curing Beriberi
Plague of the Seafarer
Search for the “Germ” of Scurvy
Preventing and Curing Scurvy
The Air Pollution Plague
A Look Back
Vitamin or Hormone?
The Origin of Rickets
Chapter 17 Plagues on Order
Blame It on the Rodents
On the Wings of Birds
We Are What We Eat
The Rise of Virulence
“In Flew Enza”
The Conquest of Plagues
General Works on Disease and History
Notes
Chapter 1. The Nature of Plagues
Chapter 2. Plagues, the Price of Being Sedentary
Chapter 3. Six Plagues of Antiquity
Chapter 4. An Ancient Plague, the Black Death
General
Specific
Chapter 5. A Modern Plague, AIDS
General
Specific
Chapter 6. Typhus, a Fever Plague
Chapter 7. Malaria, Another Fever Plague
Chapter 8. King Cholera
General
Specific
Chapter 9. Smallpox, the Spotted Plague
Chapter 10. Preventing Plagues
Chapter 11. The Plague Protectors
Chapter 12. The Great Pox Syphilis
Chapter 13. The People's Plague: Tuberculosis
General
Specific
Chapter 14. Leprosy, the Striking Hand of God
Chapter 15. Six Plagues of Africa
General
Specific
Chapter 16. Plagues without Germs
Chapter 17. Plagues on Order
Appendix Cells and Viruses
Index
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