TY - DATA AU - Watts,S.J. TI - Epidemics and history: disease, power, and imperialism SN - 0300080875 (pbk.) AV - RA 649 W353e 1997 U1 - 614.49 PY - 1999/// CY - New Haven, Conn. PB - Yale University Press KW - Epidemics KW - History KW - Social medicine KW - 19760510 N1 - Originally published: 1997; Includes bibliographical references (p. [368]-384) and index; 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 ER -