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History of Science Secondary Sources by Topic

Guide to Secondary Sources (by Topic) in the history of science, technology & medicine

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This page was created by Dr. Carolyn Scearce.

Documentaries

How to Survive a Plague (Video) (Online access) by Sundance Selects ; Public Square Films presents ; a France/Tomchin film ; in association with Ford Foundation/Justfilms, Impact Partners and Little Punk ; directed by David France ; written by David France, T. Woody Richman, Tyler H. Walk ; produced by Howard Gertler, David France
Publication Date: 2012
Unseen Enemy (Video) (Online access) by produced by Rogger Lopez, Janet Tobias, Peter Klein, Michael Ehrenzweig ; written and directed by Janet Tobias
Publication Date: 2017
We Heard the Bells: The Influenza of 1918 (Video) (Online access) by a film by Lisa Laden
Publication Date: 2010

State of the Field

The Cambridge World History of Human Disease (Online access) by Kenneth F Kiple. Contributor
Publication Date: 1993
Epidemics and Pandemics (Online access) by J. N. Hays
Publication Date: 2005
Health of People, Places and Planet: Reflections Based on Tony McMichael's Four Decades of Contribution to Epidemiological Understanding (Online access) by Colin D. Butler, Jane Dixon and Anthony G. Capon (Editors).
Publication Date: 2015

Disease History

Cholera in Post-Revolutionary Paris: A Cultural History (Online access) by Catherine Jean Kudlick
Publication Date: 1996
Communities and Crisis (Online access) by Shona Kelly Wray
Publication Date: 2009
The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death (Online access) by Samuel K. Cohn
Publication Date: 1997
Disease, Class and Social Change (Online access) by Marc Arnold
Publication Date: 2012
Disease and Class (Online access) by Georgina D. Feldberg
Publication Date: 1995
The Last Plague Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada (Online access) by Mark Osborne Humphries
Publication Date: 2013
Mexico in the Time of Cholera (Online access) by Donald Fithian Stevens
Publication Date: 2019
Mosquito Empires (Online access) by J. R. McNeill
Publication Date: 2010
Naples in the Time of Cholera, 1884-1911 (Online access) by Frank M. Snowden
Publication Date: 1995
Seven Modern Plagues (Online access) by Mark Jerome Walters
Publication Date: 2014
Typhoid Mary Captive to the Public's Health (Online access) by Judith Walzer Leavitt
Publication Date: 1996

Treatment and Prevention

History of Vaccine Development (Online access) by Stanley A. Plotkin (Editor)
Publication Date: 2011
Life Saving Drugs (Online access) by John Mann
Publication Date: 2004
Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909 (Online access) by Rohan Deb Roy
Publication Date: 2017
The Politics of Vaccination (Online access) by Stuart Blume (Editor); Christine Holmberg (Editor); Paul Greenough (Editor); David Cantor (Series edited by)
Publication Date: 2017
Smallpox, Syphilis and Salvation Medical Breakthroughs that Changed the World (Online access) by Sheryl Persson
Publication Date: 2009
Viruses and Man: A History of Interactions (Online access) by Milton W. Taylor
Publication Date: 2014

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of Epidemiology (Online access) by Sarah E. Boslaugh (Editor)
Publication Date: 2008
Encyclopedia of the Black Death (Online access) by Joseph P. Byrne
Publication Date: 2012
Infectious Diseases: Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology (Online access) by Phyllis Kanki editor.; D. Jay Grimes editor.
Publication Date: 2013

Institutional History

Research and the World Health Organization (Online access) by World Health Organization Staff
Publication Date: 2010
Sentinel for Health: A History of the Centers for Disease Control (Online access) by Elizabeth W. Etheridge
Publication Date: 1992
To Improve Human Health (Online access) by Edward D. Berkowitz
Publication Date: 1998

Zoonoses

Imperfect Creatures (Online access) by Lucinda Cole
Publication Date: 2016
Vermin, Victims and Disease British Debates over Bovine Tuberculosis and Badgers (Online access) by Angela Cassidy
Publication Date: 2019
Zoonoses - Infections Affecting Humans and Animals (Online access) by Andreas Sing (Editor)
Publication Date: 2014

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