History Courses For

Select Bibliography on History of Disease

• Ken Alibek. Biohazard. New York: Random House, 1999.
• John M. Barry. The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History. New York: Viking, 2004.
• Allan M. Brandt. No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease In The United States Since 1880. New York: Oxford, 1985.
• Norman Cantor. In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made. New York: Perennial, 2002.
• Frederick F. Cartwright. Disease and History. New York: Mentor, 1972.
• Marilyn Chase. The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco. New York: Random House, 2003.
• Carlo Cipolla. Faith, Reason, and The Plague in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany. New York: W.W.  Norton, 1979.
• Richard Collier. The Plague of The Spanish Lady: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919. New York: Atheneum, 1974.
• Alfred W. Crosby, Jr. The Columbia Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1972.
• . Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe. New York: Cambridge, 1986.
• . America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918. New York: Cambridge, 1989.
• Molly Caldwell Crosby. America Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History. New York: Berkley, 2006.
• ____. .Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains one of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries. New York: Berkley, 2010.
• Daniel Defoe. A Journal of the Plague Year. New York: Penguin, 1722, 2003.
• Robert S. Desowitz. The Thorn in the Starfish: The Immune System and How it Works. New York: W. W. Norton, 1987.
• ___. New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People. New York: W. W. Norton, 1981.
• ___. The Malaria Capers: Tales of Parasites and People. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.
• ___. Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.
• Elizabeth A. Fenn. Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82. New York: Hill and Wang, 2001.
• John G. Fuller. Fever!: The Hunt For A New Killer Virus. New York: Ballantine, 1974.
• ___. The Day We Bombed Utah. New York: New American Library, 1984.
• Hugh Gregory Gallagher. FDR's Splendid Deception. New York: Dodd Mead, 1985.
• Robert Gallo. Virus Hunting: Aids, Cancer, and the Human Retrovirus: A Story of Scientific Discovery. New York: HaperCollins, 1991.
• Laurie Garrett. The Coming Plague. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1994.
• Gerald L. Gieson. The Private Science of Louis Pasteur. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
• Robert S. Gottfried. The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe. New York: Free Press, 1983.
• Tony Gould. A Summer Plague: Polio and its Survivors. New Haven: Yale, 1995.
• Jeanne Guillemin. Anthrax: The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak. Los Angles: University of California Press, 1999.
• Robin Marantz Henig. A Dancing Matrix: Voyages Along The Viral Frontier. New York: Knopf, 1993.
• Daniel R. Hopkins. Princes and Peasants: Smallpox In History. Chicago: University Press of Chicago, 1983
• James H. Jones. Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. New York: Free Press, 1981.
• Arno Karlan. Man and Mircrobes: Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Times. New York: Tarcher/Putnam, 1995.
• John Kelly. The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Devastating Plague of All Times. New York: HarperCollins, 2005.
• Jeffrey Kluger. Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio. New York: Putnam, 2005.
• Gina Kolata. Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999.
• Alan M. Kraut. Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and "The Immigration Menace." New York: Basic Books, 1994.
• Eric Lax. The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle. New York: Henry Holt, 2004.
• Edward Marriott. Plague: A Story of Science, Rivalry, and the Scourge that Won't Go Away. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2002.
• William H. McNeill. Plagues and People. Garden City: Anchor/Doubleday, 1976.
• Katherine Ott. Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture since 1870. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.
• James T. Patterson. The Dread Disease: Cancer and Modern American Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 1987.
• C. J. Peters. Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses. New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1997.
• Richard Preston. The Hot Zone. New York: Random House, 1994.
• ___. The Cobra Event. New York: Random House, 1997.
• ___. Demon in the Freezer. New York: Random House, 2002.
• Joseph B. McCormick and Susan Fisher-Hoch. Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC. Atlanta, GA: Turner, 1996.
• Claude Quetel. History of Syphilis. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins, 1990.
• William Rosen. Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Modern Europe. New York: Viking, 2007.
• Charles E. Rosenberg. The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866. Chicago: Chicago, 1987.
• Frank Ryan, MD. The Forgotten Plague: How The Battle Against Tuberculosis Was Won --- And Lost. New York: Little, Brown, 1992, 1993.
• . X Virus: Tracking The New Killer Plagues out of the Present and into the Future. New York: Little, Brown, 1997.
• Marc Shell. Polio and Its Aftermath: The Paralysis of Culture. Cambridge: Harvard, 2005.
• Randy Shilts. And The Band Played On: Politics, People, and The AIDs Epidemic. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987.
• Robert Sullivan. Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants. New York: Bloomsbury, 2004.
• Marilyn W. Thompson. The Killer Strain: Anthrax and a Government Exposed. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.
• Jonathan B. Tucker. Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox. New York: Grove Press, 2001.
• Abraham Verghese. My Own Country: A Doctor's Story. New York: Vintage, 1994.
• Neil White. In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir. New York: William Morrow, 2009.
• Christopher Wills. Yellow Fever Black Goddess: Co-evolution of People and Plagues. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesely, 1996.
• Philip Ziegler. The Black Death. New York: Harper & Row, 1969.
• Hans Zinsser. Rats, Lice and History. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1935.