Epidemic, ideas and classical Athenian society / James Longrigg -- Disease, dragons and saints: the management of epidemics in the Dark Ages / Peregrine Horden -- Epidemic disease in formal and popular thought in early Islamic society / Lawrence I. Conrad -- Plague and perceptions of the poor in early modern Italy / Brian Pullan -- Dearth, dirt and fever epidemics: rewriting the history of British 'public health', 1780-1850 / John V. Pickstone -- Epidemics and revolutions: cholera in nineteenth-century Europe / Richard J. Evans -- Hawaiian depopulation as a model for the Amerindian experience / A. W. Crosby -- Plague panic and epidemic politics in India, 1896-1914 / Rajnarayan Chandavarkar -- Plagues of beasts and men: prophetic responses to epidemic in eastern and southern Africa / Terence Ranger -- Syphilis in colonial East and Central Africa: the social construction of an epidemic / Megan Vaughan -- The early years of AIDS in the United Kingdom 1981-6: historical perspectives / Virginia Berridge.
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