Watts, S. J. <br/><br/>
Epidemics and history :  disease, power, and imperialism / 
Sheldon Watts. 
 - New Haven, Conn. :  Yale University Press,  1999. 
 - xvi, 400 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Originally published: 1997. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [368]-384) and index. 
<br/><br/>The human response to plague in Western Europe and the Middle East, 1347 to 1844 -- Dark hidden meanings: leprosy and lepers in the medieval west and in the tropical world under the European imperium -- Smallpox in the New World and in the Old: from holocaust to eradication, 1518 to 1977 -- The secret plague: syphilis in West Europe and East Asia -- Cholera and civilization: Great Britain and India -- Yellow fever, malaria and development: Atlantic Africa and the New World, 1647 to 1928. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0300080875 (pbk.) 9780300080872 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Epidemics--History.<br/>Social medicine.<br/>19760510
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RA 649  / W353e 1997 RA 649  / W353e 1999 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>614.49