BOOKS/ARTICLES

Allen, James P. The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005.

Arnold, David. Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Bentley, Jerry H., and Herbert F. Ziegler, eds. Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past. Volume I: From the Beginnings to 1500. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.

Benedictow, Ole J. The Black Death, 1346-1353: The Complete History. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2004.

Bollet, Alfred Jay. The Impact of Human History on Epidemic Disease. New York: Demos Medical Publishing Inc., 2004.

Brown, Cynthia Stokes. A Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present. New York: The New Press, 2007.

Calvi, Giulia, trans. Biocca, Dario and Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. Histories of a Plague Year: The Social and the Imaginary in Baroque Florence. Berkeley: University of California Press 1989.

Chase, Marilyn. The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco. New York: Random House, 2003.

Christian, David. This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2008.

Craddock, Susan. City of Plagues: Disease, Poverty, and Deviance in San Francisco. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2000.

Craik, E.M.  “Thucydides on the plague:  Physiology of Flux and Fixation.” The Classical Quarterly. 51 (2001): 102-108.

Crosby, Alfred W. The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003.

Cruse, Audrey. Roman Medicine. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Tempus, 2004.

Couch, Herbert Newell. “Some Political implications of the Athenian Plague.” Transactions and proceedings of the American Philological Association. 66 (1935): 92-103.

Elmer, Peter, ed. The Healing Arts: Health, Disease and Society in Europe. Manchester: The Open University, 2004.

Enemark, Christian. Disease and Security: Natural Plagues and Biological Weapons in East Asia. New York: Routledge, 2007.

Fadiman, Anne. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997.

Gordon, Richard. The Alarming History of Medicine: Amusing Anecdotes from Hippocrates to Heart Transplants. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993.

Hatty, Suzanne E. and James. The Disordered Body: Epidemic Disease and Cultural Transformation. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999.

Hays, J. N. The Burdens of Disease: Epidemics and Human Response in Western History. Rutgers University Press, 1998. (Third paperback printing, 2003.)

Hays, J. N. Epidemics and Pandemics: Their Impacts on Human History. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2005.

David Herlihy. The Black Death and the Transformation of the West. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Horrox, Rosemary, ed. The Black Death. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994. (A great collection of primary source stuff.)

Iliffe, John. The African AIDS Epidemic: A History. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006.

Kagan, Donald.  The Archidamian War.  Ithaca:  Cornell University Press, 1974.

Karlen, Arno. Man and Microbes: Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Times. New York: Quantum Research Associates, Inc.

Kelly, John. The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time. New York: HarperCollins, 2005.

McNeill, William H. Plagues and People. New York: Anchor Books, 1976.

Morens, David M., and Littman, Robert J.  “Epidemiology of the Plague of Athens.”  Transactions of the American Philological Association. 122 (1992):  271-304.

Nielsen, Donald A.  “Pericles and the Plague:  Civil Religion, Anomie, and Injustice in Thucydides.” Sociology of Religion. 57 (1996):  397-407.

Oldstone, Michael B. Viruses, Plagues, and History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Orwin, Clifford.  “Stasis and Plague:  Thucydides on the Dissolution of Society.” The Journal of Politics.  50 (1988):  831-847.

Price-Smith, Andrew T. Plagues and Politics: Infectious Disease and International Policy. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001.

Ranger, Terence, and Paul Slack, eds. Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Rosen, George. A History of Public Health. Expanded Edition. New York: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.

Rosen, William. Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe. New York: Viking, 2007.

Salway, P., and Dell, W.  “Plague at Athens.”  Greece and Rome 2 (1957):  62-70.

Sigerist, Henry E. Civilization and Disease. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.

Watts, Sheldon. Epidemics and History: Disease, Power and Imperialism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.

Williams, E. Watson.  “The Sickness at Athens.”  Greece and Rome.  4 (1957):  98-103.

Worboys, Michael. “The Spread of Western Medicine.” In Western Medicine: An Illustrated History, edited by Irvine Loudon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Wylie, J.A., and Stubbs, H.W.  “The Plague at Athens:  430-428 B.C.  Epidemic and Epizoötic.”  The Classical Quarterly.  33 (1983):  6-11.

Yapp, Malcolm. Ibn Sina and the Muslim World. St. Paul, MN: Greenhaven Press, 1975.

Ziegler, Philip. The Black Death. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1969.

Zinsser, Hans. Rats, Lice and History: Being a Study in Biography, which, after Twelve Preliminary Chapters Indispensable for the Preparation of the Lay Reader, Deals With the Life History of TYPHUS FEVER. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1935.

Books for young students (used by Montessori teachers and recommended by our "Big History" presenter, Cynthia Brown.
"These books are fabulous, told in the voice of the universe herself!")

Morgan, Jennifer. Born With a Bang
_____ From Lava to Life
_____ Mammals Who Morph
All available from www.dawnpub.com or 1-800545-7475.

SELECTED LINKS for Institute presentations:

Decameron Web - Brown University site on the Decameron with searchable Italian and English text, research tools, and background.
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/dweb.shtml

The Gathering Storm: Infectious Disease and Human Rights in Burma (Human Rights Center, U.C. Berkeley)

In summer 2007 representatives of the Human Rights Center and Johns Hopkins University released a report documenting how decades of repressive rule, civil war, and poor governance have contributed to the spread of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other infectious diseases in Burma. For the report, researchers traveled to Rangoon and Burma’s borders with China, Thailand, Bangladesh, and India.
http://hrcberkeley.org/download/BurmaReport2007.pdf

Back Pack Helath Worker Team
http://www.geocities.com/maesothtml/bphwt/ (or www.bphwt.org)

Eva Harris / dengue fever in Latin America:

Science, Sustainability and the South
Center for Latin American Studies newsletter report on Eva Harris' work in public health and epidemiology.

Conversation with Eva Harris - interview online at Conversations With History at the Institute of International Studies, U.C.B.
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Harris/

Harris Lab
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~dengue/index.html

Sustainable Sciences Institute
http://www.ssilink.org/

UCSF Library’s collection of Japanese woodblock prints illustrates a wide variety of health-related topics. The prints provide a window into traditional Japanese attitudes toward illness, the human body, women, religion, and the West.
http://asian.library.ucsf.edu/

INSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
http://www.astmh.org
This website has interesting articles covering topics such as:  health risks for travelers to China for the 2008 Olympics; malaria eradication efforts; and NASA technology for predicting and preventing future pandemic outbreaks.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov
This website is the nation’s public health agency.  Topics on this website include:  diseases and conditions; healthy living; emergency preparedness and responses; injury, violence and safety; environmental health; travelers’ health (yellow book); life stages and populations; and workplace safety and health.

Globalization 101 - brief on infectious diseases and global public health.

In this Globalization101.org Issue Brief, you will learn how globalization influences people’s health. We will take a close look at two topics:

• How globalization is promoting both the rapid spread and the effective treatment of highly contagious diseases.
• The growing debate over the use and future of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

Four diseases in particular have become extremely important concerns, and are discussed throughout the following Issue Brief. Two of these diseases, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB), are found across the globe; the other two, cholera and malaria, primarily afflict poorer countries. If you would like to learn more about what these diseases are and the specific sets of problems they create, please check out the supplementary material in the section on "Four Global Diseases" that provides detailed information about each of them. You will see that people trying to combat each disease face different sets of challenges. (From Globalization 101 website)

International Leprosy Association—Global Project on the History of Leprosy
http://www.leprosyhistory.org/english/englishhome.htm
A database of leprosy archives around the world is maintained on this website, dating from 1847when Danielssen and Boeck published Om Spedalskhed.  The contents of this database have a wide range of organizational, policy, scientific and medical archives as well as leprosaria records, museums and libraries.  Also contains picture gallery and interactive maps.  

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/
This website provides resources for researching emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases.  Health and science topics index (A-Z) give a quick and easy way to get dependable information about infectious, immunologic and allergic diseases.  Pamphlets, information sheets, and reports produced by NIAID available online.

National Science and Technology Council—Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases
http://www.state.gov/www/global/oes/health/task_force/index.html
Electronic archive information released before 2001.Task Force addresses international scientific cooperation as it relates to foreign policy and the nation's research and development agenda.  Site contains policy documents and speeches made by Vice-President Gore.

Pan American Health Organization
http://www.paho.org
An international public health agency set up to improve health and living standards of the countries of the Americas. It is affiliated with the World Health Organization and enjoys international recognition as part of the United Nations system.  Website is available in Spanish.  Information includes health data (with table generator), media center, topic list, PAHO publishing, and many more. 

United States Department of Health and Human Services—National Institutes of Health
http://www.nih.gov

USDHHS education site on The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919.
"The Influenza Pandemic occurred in three waves in the United States throughout 1918 and 1919. Learn more about the pandemic, along with the Nation’s health and the medical care system and how they were affected. Also, take a glance at some people who fought the Influenza in the United States."
http://1918.pandemicflu.gov/the_pandemic/04.htm

One-stop access to U.S. Government avian and pandemic flu information.
http://pandemicflu.gov/

World Health Organization (United Nations) -This is a multi-lingual website addressing world health topics, publications, data and statistics, international travel information, current disease outbreaks and crises.
http://www.who.int

Disease outbreak news at http://www.who.int/csr/don/en/index.html

LIBRARIES

Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics - from Harvard University Open Collections Program, a digital library collection that brings a unique set of resources from Harvard’s libraries to Internet users everywhere. Offering valuable insights to students of the history of medicine and to researchers seeking an historical context for current epidemiology, the collection contributes to the understanding of the global, social–history, and public–policy implications of disease. Contagion is also a unique social-history resource for students of many ages and disciplines.
Includes: Timeline, background on notable people, geography, and historical views of major epidemics.
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/index.html

Ancient Egyptian Papyri medical texts online from the Bancroft Library collection at U. C. Berkeley: Includes the earliest example of the genre of illustrated herbals to survive from the ancient world.

Religion, Magic and Medicine in Ptolemaic and Roman Tebtunis was adapted from an exhibit curated by Elisabeth R. O'Connell to coincide with Dominic Rathbone's 2003 public lecture, A Town Full of Gods: Imagining Religious Experience at Tebtunis. The exhibit takes Tebtunis as a case study of how religion functioned in Graeco-Roman Egypt and challenges the idea that "religion, magic and medicine" constituted discrete categories in antiquity.
http://tebtunis.berkeley.edu/lecture/rath_ex4.html

American Museum of Natural History—Epidemic! The World of Infectious Diseases

Includes: Glossary
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/glossary.html

Karolinska Institutet - History of Medicine page
http://www.mic.ki.se/History.html

Wellcome Library History of Medicine Collection
http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/index.html

Includes: Medicine Through Time - resources are designed to support teachers and learners preparing for the Schools History Project GCSE course 'Medicine Through Time: A Development Study'.
Includes student worksheets:
How did Asian medicine try to keep people healthy?
How did people explain the plague – and how to avoid it – before they knew the real cause?
http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTD019705.html

FILMS / MULTIMEDIA

American Experience: The Great Fever DVD (PBS American Experience, 2006) Includes map, timeline, and teacher's guide. $24.99
In 1900, Major Walter Reed, Chief Surgeon of the U.S. Army, led a team to Cuba to investigate yellow fever, the disease that had killed an estimated 100,000 people in the US in the 19th century alone. Reed and his team tested the radical theories of Carlos Finlay, a doctor who believed that mosquitoes spread the disease. This program documents the heroic efforts of Reed's team, some of whom put their own lives at risk to verify Finlay's theory.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/fever/map/

Beat the Drum (Journeys in Film) $12.99 Lesson plans available on-line.
A contemporary South African film with a story about the devastation of AIDS/HIV. A young, orphaned boy sets out for the big city to find his uncle after a mysterious illness strikes his village. Driven by his determination to survive and his growing social awareness, he finds a way to make an honest living and returns to his village with a truth and understanding his elders have failed to grasp. An emotional and timely drama reminding us how one small voice can be the brave start of colossal change –uniting a village, a township, and even a nation.
http://journeysinfilm.org/selected-films.html

Health for Sale (California Newsreel) $49.95
Health for Sale asks: are the world's largest drug companies, paradoxically, major obstacles to making a healthier world? The film focuses on Big Pharma, the ten largest pharmaceutical makers, who account for 500 billion dollars of world health spending a year and whose 205 billion dollars in pre-tax profits were more than the combined profits of the 490 other Fortune 500 companies. Officials from all sides debate the impact of drug companies' patenting, "intellectual property," pricing and new product development strategies on global public health. These policies, according to Nobel Prize winning economist and former World Bank Chief Economist, Joseph Stiglitz "are condemning billions of the world's poorest citizens to death."
http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0215

Sick Around the World (online from Frontline-pbs)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/

About the Film:
In Sick Around the World, FRONTLINE teams up with veteran Washington Post foreign correspondent T.R. Reid to find out how five other capitalist democracies -- the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland -- deliver health care, and what the United States might learn from their successes and their failures.

A Note to Teachers:
This guide is intended for 9th to 12th grade classes in social studies, civics and government, current events, history, and language arts. As it examines how health care is delivered in five capitalist democracies in Europe and Asia, Sick Around the World explores potential answers to the crisis surrounding access to affordable health care in the United States. The guide invites teachers to use any or all of its activities. The featured lesson is based on a video clip from Sick Around the World.

Discussion Questions:
The guide includes a list of questions for students to discuss after viewing Sick Around the World.

NOVA scienceNOW: 1918 Flu (on-line from NOVA-pbs) The killer 1918 flu virus is revived to study the modern Avian Flu. Includes 13-min online science film for students and teacher's guide.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/activities/3318_02_nsn.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3318/02.html

TeachAIDS ( School of Education at Stanford University)
Educational tutorial animations appropriate for school aged children.

TeachAIDS.org is an initiative to promote HIV/AIDS prevention strategies through research-based, culturally appropriate interactive learning tools. Diseases such as HIV/AIDS that are transmitted sexually present significant challenges because social stigma often precludes open discussion. Based on original IRB-approved research, these interactive applications were developed by an interdisciplinary team of experts in the fields of education, communications, public health and medicine to target young learners. To minimize stigma associated with discussing sexual practices, it combines biological aspects of HIV/AIDS with cultural euphemisms, utilizing animated agents to maximize comfort and efficacy.
http://teachaids.org/

WorldImages includes a collection of images for teaching about the plague as well as other collections for medicine.
http://worldimages.sjsu.edu

NEWSPAPER PROMPTS:

"How Epidemics Helped Shape the Modern Metropolis" by John Noble Wilford (NYT, April 15, 2008) -cholera experience and responses in 19th century New York City.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/science/15chol.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

"Clues to Black Plague’s Fury in 650-Year-Old Skeletons" by Nicholas Bakalar (NYT, January 29, 2008) -New findings suggest that the plague selectively took the already ill, while many of the otherwise healthy survived the infection.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/health/research/29plag.html

"Foreign-born TB cases need better control, US says" By Lindsey Tanner, AP Medical Writer - Short articles whcih raises challenging questions about borders and disease during an age of globalization.
San Francisco Chronicle, Tuesday, July 22, 2008.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/07/22/national/a130409D81.DTL&hw=TB&sn=001&sc=1000

"Rise in TB Is Linked to Loans From I.M.F. " by Nicholas Bakalar.
New York Times, July 22, 2008.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/health/research/22tb.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=rise%20in%20TB&st=cse&oref=slogin

"Taboos About Sex Hinder Efforts to Fight AIDS in Pakistan, Study Says"
by Donald G. McNeil Jr.
New York Times, July 22, 2008.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/health/research/22glob.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Taboos%20About%20Sex%20Hinder%20Efforts%20to%20Fight%20AIDS%20in%20Pakistan,%20Study%20Says&st=cse&oref=slogin