Humoral medicine : the legacy of Hippocrates and Galen
Overview of the three plague pandemics : 541 to ca. 1950
Smallpox before Edward Jenner
The historical impact of smallpox
War and disease : Napoleon, yellow fever, and the Haitian Revolution
War and disease : Napoleon, dysentery, and typhus in Russia, 1812
The Paris School of Medicine
The germ theory of disease
Tuberculosis in the Romantic Era of consumption
Tuberculosis in the unromantic era of contagion
The third plague pandemic : Hong Kong and Bombay
Malaria and Sardinia : uses and abuses of history
Polio and the problem of eradication
HIV/AIDS : an introduction and the case of South Africa
HIV?AIDS : the experience of the United States
Emerging and reemerging diseases
Dress rehearsals for the twenty-first century : SARS and Ebola.
