Geographies of Plague Pandemics : The Spatial-Temporal Behavior of Plague to the Modern Day
In: 2018; (2018)
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Plague, its emergence and persistence through recent human history -- What is plague? -- What does the future hold? -- What does this book address? -- References -- 2. The Athenian Pandemic -- Arrival -- Symptoms -- Speed, seasonality, duration, and mortality of the Athenian Pandemic -- Social/cultural/economic/political ramifications/environmental change -- Etiologic agent -- References -- 3. Antonine Pandemic and Justinianic Plague -- First Plague Pandemic begins -- The Antonine Pandemic -- The Justinianic Plague -- Arrival, spread, seasonality and epidemic velocity -- Mortality -- Etiologic identification -- Social/cultural/economic/political ramifications -- Migrations -- Religion -- Wages and employment -- Environmental changes -- Summary -- References -- 4. The medieval Black Death arrives in Europe -- The Second Plague Pandemic begins -- Plagueâs poor timing -- What is the origin of plague and is it the medieval Black Death? -- Which plague strain seeded each plague pandemic? -- Which plague was it â bubonic or pneumonic plague? -- Arrival in Europe -- Speed of transmission -- Spread: where, where not and attempts at control -- Quarantine begins -- Mortality, birth rate and seasonality -- Gender and age mortality -- Birth rate -- Seasonality of mBD presentation -- Social/cultural/economic/political ramifications -- Art -- Fashion -- Diet -- Education -- Medicine -- Environmental changes -- Gender -- Geopolitical influence -- Landownership and migration -- Minorities -- Religion -- Taxation -- Wages and employment -- Warfare -- Summary -- References -- 5. The scourge of Y. pestis re-emerges and persists from 1361 to 1879 -- Second Plague Pandemic continues -- Changing plague mortality
The plague and mortality in Penrith (1597â98) -- The plague and mortality in Parma (1630) -- The plague and mortality in Venice (1630) -- The plague and mortality in Eyam (1665-66) -- The plague and mortality in Provence (1720â22) -- The plague and mortality in Russia (1770â1772) -- Epidemiology, re-emergence and extinction of the plague between 1361 and 1879 -- Source of plague re-emergence -- Plague extinction -- Quarantine -- Plague surveillance -- CCR5-Î32 gene mutation -- Medical knowledge vs. public health -- The end of plague -- Impact of plague on daily life during the Black Death -- Demography of Europe during the plague -- Socio-economic impact of plague during the medieval Black Death -- Serfs and real wages -- End of serfdom, the beginning of state border controls and democracy -- Gendering of the Black Death -- Taxation, warfare, innovation and manufacturing -- Art and language -- Minorities -- Environmental change -- How was religion affected by the Black Death -- Summary -- References -- 6. Re-emergence in China and spread to Singapore, Taiwan, Bombay, San Francisco, and Australia before 1901 -- Third Plague Pandemic begins -- Epidemiology and re-emergence of plague in China -- Culture, politics and plague in Hong Kong and Bombay/Mumbai, India -- Speed, seasonality, duration and mortality of the Third Plague Pandemicin China and India -- Bubonic plagueâs low case fatality rate -- Impact of plague on daily life during the plague -- Plague control in China, India and elsewhere prior to 1900 -- The spread of plague away from China and India -- Plague in Brazil in 1899 -- Plague in Japan in 1899 -- Plague in Australia in 1900 -- Plague in San Francisco in 1900 -- Pneumonic plague in Manchuria -- Social consequences of plague prior to 1901 -- References -- 7. 1901 to present -- Third Plague Pandemic continues -- Plague in the US
Plague in Madagascar -- Plague in Africa since 1901 -- Plague in India after 1901 -- Plague in Central and South America -- References -- 8. Weaponized plague and plague surveillance -- 1346 in Kaffa to the modern day -- Risk management, plague surveillance and modeling -- Concluding book summary -- References -- Index
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Geographies of Plague Pandemics : The Spatial-Temporal Behavior of Plague to the Modern Day
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Welford, Mark |
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Quelle: | 2018; (2018) |
Veröffentlichung: | Milton: Taylor and Francis, 2018 |
Medientyp: | Elektronische Ressource |
ISBN: | 978-1-315-30742-8 (print) ; 1-315-30742-1 (print) |
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