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 35m
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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 35 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Epidemics of the Middle Ages
2The Epidemics of the Middle Ages
3THE BLACK DEATH. (pt. 1)
4THE BLACK DEATH. (pt. 2)
5THE DANCING MANIA. (pt. 1)
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6THE DANCING MANIA. (pt. 2)
7THE SWEATING SICKNESS. (pt. 1)
8THE SWEATING SICKNESS. (pt. 2)
9THE SWEATING SICKNESS. (pt. 3)
10THE SWEATING SICKNESS. (pt. 4)
11The Third Great Plague
12The Third Great Plague
13The Third Great Plague
14Chapter IV
15Chapter VIII
16Chapter XI
17Chapter XIV
18The pathology of influenza
19The pathology of influenza
20INTRODUCTION
21THE PATHOLOGY OF THE RESPIRATORY TRACT IN INFLUENZA
22II. INFLUENCE OF THE RESPIRATORY COMPLICATION OF INFLUENZA UPON TUBERCULOSIS OF THE LUNG
23III. EXTRARESPIRATORY LESIONS IN INFLUENZA
24IV. COMPARISON BETWEEN THE RESPIRATORY LESIONS OF INFLUENZA AND THOSE INITIATED BY THE INHALATION OF POISONOUS GASES
25V. PECULIARITIES OF THE HISTOLOGY OF INFLUENZAL PNEUMONIA
26VI. INFECTION AS A POSSIBLE ETIOLOGICAL FACTOR FOR MALIGNANT NEW GROWTHS
27VII. THE BACTERIOLOGY OF INFLUENZAL PNEUMONIA
28VIII. CONCLUSIONS
29BIBLIOGRAPHY
30Studies on Epidemic Influenza: Comprising Clinical and Laboratory Investigations
31Studies on Epidemic Influenza: Comprising Clinical and Laboratory Investigations
32PREFACE
33HISTORY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY OF INFLUENZA
34A CLINICAL DESCRIPTION OF INFLUENZA AS IT APPEARED IN THE EPIDEMIC OF 1918–1919
35THE URINE AND BLOOD IN EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA
36THE TREATMENT OF INFLUENZA
37THE PREVENTION OF EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO VACCINE PROPHYLAXIS (pt. 1)
38THE PREVENTION OF EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO VACCINE PROPHYLAXIS (pt. 2)
39PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL CHEMICAL OBSERVATIONS IN EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA
40THE BACTERIOLOGY OF EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA WITH A DISCUSSION OF B. INFLUENZÆ AS THE CAUSE OF THIS AND OTHER INFECTIVE PROCESSES
41THE PATHOLOGY OF EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA (pt. 1)
42THE PATHOLOGY OF EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA (pt. 2)
43EXPLANATION OF PLATES
44Influenza
45Influenza
46I. Breaking the channels of communication.
47MISCELLANEOUS CONSIDERATIONS.
48ADMINISTRATIVE MEASURES FOR RELIEF.
49THE BACTERIOLOGY OF THE 1918 EPIDEMIC OF SO-CALLED INFLUENZA.
50VACCINES.
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