Pandemic Origins: 5 Classic Books on the Study of Epidemics
Classic Writings on Plague, Contagion, Public Health, and SocietyBy Frank P. McNamara, Isabel M. Wason, M. C. Winternitz, John Caius, J. F. C. Hecker, John H. Stokes, University of Pittsburgh. School of Medicine, Provincial Board of Health of Ontario
Length36h 39m
About this audiobook
Pandemic Origins gathers five foundational studies of epidemics into a capacious archive of medical inquiry, public-health observation, and historical interpretation. Across clinical description, epidemiological argument, administrative report, and retrospective analysis, the volume traces how communities have sought to identify contagion, map transmission, and govern collective risk. Its juxtaposition of classic texts illuminates the shifting vocabularies through which epidemic disease became an object of scientific investigation and civic concern. The contributors—Frank P. McNamara, Isabel M. Wason, M. C. Winternitz, John Caius, J. F. C. Hecker, and John H. Stokes—represent distinct moments in the development of medical and historical writing on disease. Their work is complemented by materials associated with the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Ontario's Provincial Board of Health, institutions that underscore the connection between scholarship, clinical practice, and public administration. Together, these voices situate epidemic thought within the long transition from early modern accounts of pestilence to modern bacteriological and public-health frameworks. Recommended for students, historians of medicine, and readers seeking context for contemporary pandemic debates, this collection offers an unusually rich encounter with the intellectual origins of epidemiology. It rewards close reading by placing diverse methods and assumptions in dialogue, revealing both continuities and transformations in how societies understand disease, evidence, and responsibility.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length36 hrs 39 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Epidemics of the Middle Ages
2THE BLACK DEATH.
3CHAPTER I
4CHAPTER II
5CHAPTER III
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6CHAPTER IV
7CHAPTER V
8CHAPTER VI
9THE DANCING MANIA.
10CHAPTER II. DANCING MANIA IN ITALY.
11CHAPTER III. DANCING MANIA IN ABYSSINIA.
12CHAPTER IV. SYMPATHY.
13THE SWEATING SICKNESS. (pt. 1)
14THE SWEATING SICKNESS. (pt. 2)
15THE SWEATING SICKNESS. (pt. 3)
16THE SWEATING SICKNESS. (pt. 4)
17The Third Great Plague
18The Third Great Plague
19The Third Great Plague
20Chapter IV
21Chapter VIII
22Chapter XI
23Chapter XIV
24The pathology of influenza
25INTRODUCTION
26THE PATHOLOGY OF THE RESPIRATORY TRACT IN INFLUENZA
27II. INFLUENCE OF THE RESPIRATORY COMPLICATION OF INFLUENZA UPON TUBERCULOSIS OF THE LUNG
28III. EXTRARESPIRATORY LESIONS IN INFLUENZA
29IV. COMPARISON BETWEEN THE RESPIRATORY LESIONS OF INFLUENZA AND THOSE INITIATED BY THE INHALATION OF POISONOUS GASES
30V. PECULIARITIES OF THE HISTOLOGY OF INFLUENZAL PNEUMONIA
31VI. INFECTION AS A POSSIBLE ETIOLOGICAL FACTOR FOR MALIGNANT NEW GROWTHS
32VII. THE BACTERIOLOGY OF INFLUENZAL PNEUMONIA
33VIII. CONCLUSIONS
34Studies on Epidemic Influenza: Comprising Clinical and Laboratory Investigations
35Studies on Epidemic Influenza: Comprising Clinical and Laboratory Investigations
36PREFACE
37HISTORY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY OF INFLUENZA
38A CLINICAL DESCRIPTION OF INFLUENZA AS IT APPEARED IN THE EPIDEMIC OF 1918–1919
39THE URINE AND BLOOD IN EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA
40THE TREATMENT OF INFLUENZA
41THE PREVENTION OF EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO VACCINE PROPHYLAXIS (pt. 1)
42THE PREVENTION OF EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO VACCINE PROPHYLAXIS (pt. 2)
43PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL CHEMICAL OBSERVATIONS IN EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA
44THE BACTERIOLOGY OF EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA WITH A DISCUSSION OF B. INFLUENZÆ AS THE CAUSE OF THIS AND OTHER INFECTIVE PROCESSES
45THE PATHOLOGY OF EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA (pt. 1)
46THE PATHOLOGY OF EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA (pt. 2)
47EXPLANATION OF PLATES
48Influenza
49I. Breaking the channels of communication.
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