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dlvertical2 General History Bibliography

Arrizabalaga, Jon, John Henderson, and Roger French.The great pox: the French
disease in Renaissance Europe. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1997.

Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron, trans. G.H. McWilliam., 2nd ed. London;
New York: Penguin Books, 1995. (Introduction on plague)

Brudney K, Dobkin J. Resurgent tuberculosis in New York City: human
immunodeficiency virus, homelessness, and the decline of tuberculosis control
programs. Am Rev Respir Dis 1991;144:745-9.

Carmichael, Ann G. Plague and the Poor in Renaissance Florence (Cambridge and
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986)

Crosby, Alfred W.America’s forgotten pandemic: the influenza of 1918,  2nd ed.,
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Davis J.L. et al. Ground penetrating radar surveys to locate 1918 Spanish flu
victims in permafrost. Journal of Forensic Sciences. 45(1):68-76, 2000 Jan.

Duffin, Jacalyn. History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction (Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 1999), esp. Chapter 7.

Durbach, Nadja, Bodily matters : the anti-vaccination movement in England,
1853-1907 (Durham : Duke University Press, 2005).

Getz, Faye. "The Black Death and the Silver Lining: Meaning, Continuity, and
Revolutionary Change in Histories of Medieval Plague," Journal of the History of
Biology 24 (1991): 265-289

Grmek, Mirko D. History of AIDS: Emergence and Origin of a Modern Pandemic,
trans. Russell C. Maulitz and Jacalyn Duffin (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990),  esp. pp. 156-61 (pathocenosis).

Grmek, Mirko D. “Un concept nouveau: la pathocénose. In La vie, les maladies, et
l'histoire. ed. L. L. Lambrichs  (Paris: Seuil, 2001), pp. 29-33.

Hopkins, Donald R. Princes and Peasants: Smallpox in History (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1983)

Jenner, Edward. An inquiry into the causes and effects of the variola vaccina, a
disease discovered in some of the western counties of England, ... and known by
the name of the cow pox.  London: printed, for the author, by Sampson Low: and
sold by Law; and Murray and Highley, 1798.

Kiple, Kenneth D., ed. The Cambridge World History of Human Disease (New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1993)

Kraut, Alan M. Silent travelers: germs, genes, and the "immigrant menace." New
York, NY: BasicBooks, 1994.

Markel, Howard. Quarantine! East European Jewish Immigrants and the New
York City Epidemics of 1892 (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press,
1997)

McNeill, William Hardy. Plagues and Peoples (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press:
Doubleday, 1976)

McKeown, Thomas. The Role of Medicine: Dream, Mirage or Nemesis? 2nd ed.
(Oxford: Blackwell, 1979)

Miller, Genevieve. The Adoption of Inoculation for Smallpox in England and
France (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1957)

Rogers, Naomi. Dirt and Disease: Polio before FDR (New Brunswick, N.J.:
Rutgers University Press, 1992)

Rosenberg, Charles E. The Cholera Years: the United States in 1832, 1849, and
1866 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962)

Sherwood J. Syphilization: human experimentation in the search for a syphilis
vaccine in the nineteenth century. Journal of the History of Medicine & Allied
Sciences. 54(3):364-86, 1999 Jul.

Sherwood J. Treating syphilis: the wetnurse as technology in an eighteenth-century Parisian hospital. Journal of the History of Medicine & Allied Sciences. 50(3):315-39, 1995 Jul.

Sontag, Susan. Illness as Metaphor (New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 1977)

Snow, John. Snow on cholera: being a reprint of two papers. New York: Commonwealth Fund; London: Oxford University Press, 1936.

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian Wars. Book II, ch 47-52 (Plague of Athens).

Valesecchi, Christine. Mass plague graves found on Venice Quarantine Island,
National Geographic News 27 August 2007
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/070829-venice-plague.html


Bibliography on Canada


Bliss, Michael. Plague: a Story of Smallpox in Montreal (Toronto: Harper Collins,
1991)

Cassel, Jay. The Secret Plague: Venereal Disease in Canada, 1838-1939 (Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 1987).

Curtis, Bruce. “Social Investment in Medical Forms: the 1866 Cholera Scare and
Beyond. Canadian Historical Review 81 no. 3 (2000): 347-79.

Duffin, J. 1994 "AIDS, Memory and the History of Medicine: Musings on the
Canadian Response," Genitourinary Medicine, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 64-69.

Duffin, J. and A. Sweetman, eds. SARS in Context: Memory, History, Policy
(McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006)

Dukes TW. "Grosse-Ile": an overview of the island's past role in human and animal medicine in Canada. Canadian Veterinary Journal. 42(8):643-8, 2001 Aug.

Feldberg, Georgina. Disease and Class: Tuberculosis and the Shaping of Modern North American Society (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995)

Fenn, Elizabeth A., Biological Warfare in Eighteenth-Century North America:
Beyond Jeffery Amherst. The Journal of American History 86.4 (2000): 55 pars. 8
Feb. 2008
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/86.4/fenn.html

James,  Steven and Timothy Sargent. “Economic Impacts of SARS and Pandemic
Influenza. In SARS in Context: Memory, History, Policy, ed. J Duffin and A.
Sweetman (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006), 175-196.

Jones, Esyllt W. Influenza 1918: disease, death, and struggle in Winnipeg Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 2007.

Keating, Peter, and Othmar Keel. Santé et société au Québec: XIXe-XXe siècles
(Montréal: Boréal, 1995)

Lux, Maureen. Medicine that Walks: Medicine, Disease, and Canadian Plains
Native People (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001).

MacDougall, Heather A. Activists and Advocates: Toronto's Health Department,
1883-1983 (Toronto, Ontario: Dundurn Press, 1990)

Marble, Allan Everett. Surgeons, Smallpox, and the Poor: a History of Medicine
and Social Conditions in Nova Scotia, 1749-1799 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's
University Press, 1993)

McGinnis, Janice Dicken. “The Impact of Epidemic Influenza; Canada, 1918-19.”
In Medicine in Canadian Society, ed. S.E.D. Shortt. Montreal and Kingston:
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 447-77.

Neary P. Venereal disease and public health administration in Newfoundland in the
1930s and 1940s. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 15(1):129-51, 1998.

O'Gallagher, Marianna. Grosse Ile: Gateway to Canada, 1832-1937 (Ste Foy, Que:
Carraig Books, 1984)

Pettigrew, Eileen. The Silent Enemy: Canada and the Deadly Flu of 1918
(Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1983)

Quinney, Linda J. “‘Filling the Gaps’: Canadian Voluntary Nurses, the 1917
Halifax Explosion and the Influenza Epidemic of 1918,” Canadian Bulletin of
Medical History 19 (2002): 351-374.

Rutty, Christopher J. "Middle Class Plague: Epidemic Polio and the Canadian
State, 1936-37," Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 13 (1996): 277-314

Spaulding, W. B. "The Ontario Vaccine Farm, 1885-1916," Canadian Bulletin of
Medical History 6 (1989): 179-183

Waldram, James B., D. Ann Herring, and  T. Kue Young. Aboriginal health in
Canada: historical, cultural, and epidemiological perspectives, 2nd ed., University
of Toronto Press,  2006.

Wherrett, George J. The Miracle of the Empty Beds: a History of Tuberculosis in
Canada (Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1977)


History Photo References

Slide 2-4 J. Duffin, by Joshua Lipton-Duffin.

Slide 5-6 Parthenon, Athens, by Jacalyn Duffin.

Slide 7 Title page of Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian Wars.

Slide 8  Eighteenth-century plague doctors, with gown, mask, gloves to prevent contagion and reduce the stench of infected or dead bodies.

Slide 9 “Triumph of Death,”  Anonymous Catalan artist, 15thC, fresco, Palermo, Sicily.

Slide 10-11 Map of spread of 14thC plague from
http://www.iiasa.ac.at/docs/HOTP/Sep07/plague-map-large.gif

Slide 12 Cover of Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors.

Slide 13
Illustration from Hartmann Schedel, Buch der Chroniken (The Nuremburg Chronicles), 1493, showing Jews being burned in response to plague.

Slide 14
Image of man with leprosy manuscript, from British Library.

Slide 15
Dangers of Love – young man does not perceive the dreadful disease lurking behind the mask of a pretty face.
Syphilis: poëme en quatre chants. Paris Martinon, 1851
See also National Library of Medicine, Online images
Order Number A012290

Slide 16
Cowpox on the arm. From Jenner, An Inquiry, 1798.

Slide 17
Child with smallpox. The front view of the WHO smallpox recognition card. The card, which portrays a patient with relatively mild smallpox, was widely used from 1971 to facilitate case detection in endemic countries.
www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/smallpox/Images/Small/SmallpoxCard

Slide 18
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu by Johnathan Richardson, circa 1725.

Slide 19
Cowpox on a cow’s udder.  From Jenner, An Inquiry, 1798.

Slide 20
Riot over vaccination in Montreal 1885. Harper’s Weekly, 28 November 1885, Bert Hansen Collection, New York, NY
Permission given by Professor Hansen.

Slide 21
Caricature opposed to vaccination showing Jenner turning his patients into cows. James Gillray,  1801
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/file.php/2642/S320_1_002i.jpg

Slide 22
Poliomyelitis Vaccine (Salk), Connaught Medical Research Laboratories, University of Toronto, 1959. Photo: Aventis Pasteur Limited Archives, Acc0282 http://www.healthheritageresearch.com/PolioPHD.html

Slide 23
E. Munch, The Scream

Slide 24
"Blue stage of the spasmodic cholera. Sketch of a girl who died of cholera in Switzerland, November, 1831."
The face was hand tinted with blue.
 "History of...the...cholera in England and Scotland", Lancet, 1831-32, v. 1, follo. p. 668.

Slide 25
Cholera in Quebec city, by Joseph Legaré, ca 1832—the fires in pots around the Place Royal were intended to purify the air.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa—no. 7157.

Slide 26
Quarantine Shed on Grosse Ile National Historic Site. Photograph by Jacalyn Duffin.

Slide 27
Mass grave on Grosse Ile National Historic Site. Photograph by Jacalyn Duffin.

Slide 28
Quarantine Shed on Grosse Ile National Historic Site. Photograph by Jacalyn Duffin.

Slide 29
John Snow, 1813-1858 photographic portrait.
from National Library of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/cholera/images/b024140.jpg


Slide 30
Cholera takes the form of “death in Turkish garb” and is being denied entry by the citizens of New York. Cholera on the Bowsprit, image published in Puck magazine, 18, July 1883. Bert Hansen Collection New York, NY. Permission given by Professor Hansen.

Slide 31 Robert Koch. Online Photograph. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-12406

PART TWO
Slide 2 Beds in a NYC homless shelter.
 
Slide 3 Newspaper headlines during influenza epidemic.
http://www.pastforward.ca/perspectives/april_182003.htm

Slide 4 Influenza hospital at Fort Riley, Kansas, 1918. 
(AP Photo/National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology)
http://www.uvamagazine.org/site/c.esJNK1PIJrH/b.1601297/k.6733/Once_and_Future_Plague.htm

Slide 5 Women in masks, 1918-19
http://www.lifelikecharm.com/flu_masks_1918_19.jpg

Slide 6 Cover E. Jones, Influenza, 1918, 2007.

Slide 7  Sick people in interior of a steamer. From J. M. Woodworth, Cholera

Slide 8  The handle-less replica pump on the site of the original Broad St. pump with the John Snow pub, in background. Now called Broadwick Street, Soho, London UK. Photograph by Jacalyn Duffin.

Slide 9 Tuberculosis mortality declining 1938-1960 in UK. Notice that the slope is unaffected by medical discoveries Mckeown, 1979, p. 92.

Slide 10 Beds in a NYC homless shelter.

Slide 11 The plague of the Philistines at Ashdod. Oil painting by Pieter van Halen,
 1661. L0011603 Credit: Wellcome Library, London

Slide 12 Peter Duesberg, a molecular biologist claims that he will colunteer as first
 human to be inoculated with HIV if researchers can guarantee its purity. Photo
 from www.newaidsreview.org/

Slide 13 E Munch, The Scream

Slide 14-15 Cover of book edited by Duffin and Sweetman showing plague doctors and little girls wear masks while at ballet during SARS epidemic in Hong Kong.

Slide 16
Triumph of De-Jenneration, Punch magazine 30 July 1898
From N. Durbach, Fig. 10 p. 137 – citing the Wellcome library

Slide 17
A wet nurse attributed (probably erroneously) to Mattia Preti –  From anesthesioboist.blogspot.com

Slide 18
Quarantine Shed on Grosse Ile National Historic Site. Photograph by Jacalyn Duffin

Slide 19 E Munch, The Scream

Slide 20 Kids lining up to receive polio vaccine, ca 1950s
http://www.achievement.org/achievers/sal0/photos/sal0-015a.gif

Slide 21 Eczema vaccinatum as a result of vaccination
www.tuberose.com/ Vaccinations.html  7 Nov. 2006

Slide 22 President Ford getting swine flu shot from Dr Lukash
www.doctorzebra.com/ prez/z_x38swine_flu_shot_...

Slides 23-24 The plague of the Philistines at Ashdod. Oil painting by Pieter van
 Halen, 1661. L0011603 Credit: Wellcome Library, London

Slide 25 Sick people in interior of a steamer. From J. M. Woodworth, Cholera
 Epidemic of 1873, National Library of Medicine ID 64760840r

Slide 26-27 Two slides giving a schematic diagram of the concept of pathocenosis
 by J. Duffin, after M.D. Grmek.



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