The Burdens of Disease: Epidemics and Human Response in Western History

In this updated volume, with revisions and additions to the original content, including the evolution of drug-resistant diseases and expanded coverage of HIV/AIDS, along with recent data on mortality figures and other relevant statistics, J. N. Hays chronicles perceptions and responses to plague and pestilence over two thousand years of western history. Disease is framed as a multidimensional construct, situated at the intersection of history, politics, culture, and medicine, and rooted in mentalities and social relations as much as in biological conditions of pathology. This revised edition of The Burdens of Disease also studies the victims of epidemics, paying close attention to the relationships among poverty, power, and disease.

• Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs
• Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped Our History
• The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
• The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
• Medicine and Western Civilization
• The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction
• The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe
• Plagues and Peoples
• The Black Death, The Great Mortality of 1348-1350: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture)
• The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866