Plagues & poxes : the impact of human history on epidemic disease - Bollet Alfred J (New York : Demos, 2004)
Poliomyelitis: why did Franklin Delano Roosevelt get infantile paralysis as an adult? -- Beriberi: an epidemic affecting rice-eaters -- The pellagra epidemics: the three M's produce the four D's -- Scurvy: the purpura nautica -- Dying for a cigar? how about a cigarette?: smoking and epidemic cancer: a story of two presidents and a prince -- Rickets: the English disease -- Gout: the disease of good living -- Anthrax: from woolsorter's disease to terrorism -- Botulism: from bad food to terrorism -- The SARS epidemic: a new disease retraces the experience with older diseases.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Epidemiology -- History; Disease Outbreaks -- history; Communicable Diseases -- history; Epidemiology -- history