Lists of Bests: sharp_young_lady's "Books on the History of Disease, Health, and Medicine" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/69936 Obviously this list is currently US-centric, so if anyone has suggestions I would be happy to add them. Thu, 31 May 2012 18:56:25 GMT en-us 0 50 97 50 0 When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2205858 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2205858"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2B5LhY%2BtqL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Howard Markel</div> Quarantine!: East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1136514 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1136514"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51C6T7Y7CWL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Howard Markel</div> Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative (John Hope Franklin Center Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4888914 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4888914"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51khK9UETiL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Priscilla Wald</div> Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/606568 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/606568"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51E1cI8s3xL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Judith Walzer Leavitt</div> The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2838979 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2838979"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PTKnlE19L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven Johnson</div> Polio: An American Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002939 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002939"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MYOf-fdWL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David M. Oshinsky</div> A Summer Plague: Polio and Its Survivors http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2943110 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2943110"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SCH8TXMXL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mr. Tony Gould</div> Polio Voices: An Oral History from the American Polio Epidemics and Worldwide Eradication Efforts (The Praeger Series on Contemporary Health and Living) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5162969 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5162969"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51pRv8%2BrpAL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julie K. Silver</div> Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7399382 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7399382"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JJyiDLUDL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bert Hansen</div> Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1488988 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1488988"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Ay6bzTCQL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth A. Fenn</div> Smallpox- the Death of a Disease: The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6927166 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6927166"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41h6X2WGrML._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by D. A. Henderson</div> The Greatest Killer: Smallpox in History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2951063 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2951063"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QH1J6BEQL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Donald R. Hopkins</div> The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/219157 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/219157"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51bnC6s5h-L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marilyn Chase</div> Daily Life during the Black Death (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4240577 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4240577"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QWX9KPFNL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph P. Byrne</div> Disease and Class: Tuberculosis and the Shaping of Modern North American Society (Women Writers) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7399383 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7399383"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KPj2rJifL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Georgina D. Feldberg</div> Yellow Fever, Black Goddess: The Coevolution Of People And Plagues (Helix Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1597784 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1597784"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51tXj6i0XFL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher Wills</div> An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (Newbery Honor Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/219156 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/219156"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51J8tbEVDxL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jim Murphy</div> Bring Out Your Dead. The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7399384 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7399384"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515xiiQByFL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.H. Powell</div> Plagues and Peoples http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9968 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9968"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51D6QACBDXL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William H. McNeill</div> Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Studies in Environment and History) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1011538 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1011538"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/411pJlEyIrL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alfred W. Crosby</div> America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1011537 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1011537"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41RMZPASWNL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alfred W. Crosby</div> The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492, 30th Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/130200 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/130200"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xi24Bp2ZL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alfred W. Crosby Jr.</div> AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame, Updated with a New Preface http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/709716 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/709716"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514E0YMT7RL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Farmer</div> Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, New and Expanded Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/68208 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/68208"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515jTeP86LL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James H. Jones</div> The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66451 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66451"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ebwNE-PZL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Starr</div> Hives of Sickness: Public Health and Epidemics in New York City http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1938747 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1938747"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CHW4FBA1L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> How the Other Half Lives, Special Illustrated Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7399385 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7399385"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PRU38VXGL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jacob Riis</div> The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/358899 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/358899"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41y1C16at7L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles E. Rosenberg</div> Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830-1910 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/537004 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/537004"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51B5RKoTotL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Evans</div> Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3480957 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3480957"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41wky-7lS%2BL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harriet A. Washington</div> Man and Microbes: Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Times http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/514263 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/514263"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51pPWRjujmL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arno Karlen</div> Of Mice, Men, and Microbes: Hantavirus http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/240186 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/240186"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CoTLAp6fL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David R. Harper</div> Disease: The Extraordinary Stories Behind History's Deadliest Killers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7399386 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7399386"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511yHtVJ5mL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Dobson</div> Laboratory Disease: Robert Koch's Medical Bacteriology http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6849173 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6849173"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4142CN3rT4L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christoph Gradmann</div> Virtually Virgins: Sexual Strategies and Cervical Cancer in Recife, Brazil http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4991528 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4991528"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/313EGqWWbCL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jessica Gregg</div> The Private Science of Louis Pasteur http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2469612 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2469612"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/069101552X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057192988_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gerald L. Geison</div> The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline Among Northwest Coast Indians, 1774-1874 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3529377 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3529377"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01W9ZSTRPEL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert T. Boyd</div> Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown (American Crossroads) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1541564 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1541564"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41lNCHa8iOL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nayan Shah</div> A Brief History of Disease, Science and Medicine http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7399387 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7399387"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51g6XrNURhL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael T. Kennedy MD</div> Fever Hospital: A History of Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7399388 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7399388"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41wonBU-g7L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bill Anderson</div> Doctors: The Biography of Medicine http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/488006 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/488006"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zDyYyXk4L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sherwin B. Nuland</div> To Cast Out Disease: A History of the International Health Division of Rockefeller Foundation (1913-1951) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6920955 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6920955"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51UmQF7ZQjL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Farley</div> Charles Nicolle, Pasteur's Imperial Missionary: Typhus and Tunisia (Rochester Studies in Medical History) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1253930 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1253930"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ETB420QDL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kim Pelis</div> The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7046545 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7046545"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NdhbirFGL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephan Talty</div> Typhus and Doughboys: The American Polish Typhus Relief Expedition, 1919-1921 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7399389 <div id="position">45</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alfred E. Cornebise</div> The Myth of Syphilis: The Natural History of Treponematosis in North America (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7399390 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7399390"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QFYX6NVYL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> A Slight Epidemic...: The Government Cover-Up of Bubonic Plague in a Major American City http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7399392 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7399392"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lk061KL1L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frank Feldinger</div> And The Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5400516 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Randy Shilts</div> Plague Ports: The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague, 1894-1901 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7399393 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7399393"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51E1R0XPDHL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Myron Echenberg</div> Bubonic Plague in Early Modern Russia: Public Health and Urban Disaster http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7399394 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7399394"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41l1FN5hn3L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John T. Alexander</div>