| Publisher's Note |
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| Editor's Introduction |
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| Contributors |
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Sickness Unto Death in Early Times |
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Thucydides on the Athenian Plague |
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3 | (7) |
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Requirements for a Physician |
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10 | (5) |
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Galen, Method of Medicine |
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15 | (8) |
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Plague of Cyprian: De Mortalitate |
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23 | (10) |
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On Fate and Providence, from The Consolation of Philosophy |
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33 | (10) |
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43 | (10) |
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"On Experimental Science" |
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53 | (9) |
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The Black Death: Two Readings |
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62 | (7) |
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69 | (12) |
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81 | (6) |
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87 | (8) |
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Nostradamus on a Remedy for the Plague |
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95 | (8) |
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The Charitable Pestmaster, or, The Cure of the Plague |
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103 | (14) |
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From A journal of the Plague Year |
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117 | (10) |
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An Historical Account of the Small-Pox Inoculated in New England |
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127 | (18) |
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Letters by James Oglethorpe on an Epidemic of Influenza in Savannah, Georgia, 1733 |
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145 | (6) |
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An Account of the Bilious Remitting Yellow Fever |
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151 | (16) |
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Disease in the Industrial Era |
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Report on the Typhus Epidemic in Upper Silesia (1947-48) |
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167 | (10) |
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On the Mode of Communication of Cholera |
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177 | (10) |
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An Emigrant's Narrative; or, A Voice from the Steerage |
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187 | (12) |
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199 | (5) |
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From How the Other Half Lives |
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204 | (9) |
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Epidemic Diseases Act (British India, 1897) |
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213 | (7) |
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220 | (10) |
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Child Labor in the New York City Tenements |
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230 | (13) |
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Australian Quarantine Document |
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243 | (6) |
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Documents Relating to the Trudeau Sanitarium |
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249 | (10) |
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Notice to Alaskan Natives Regarding Flu Containment |
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259 | (6) |
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Plans for a Liberty Bond Parade during the 1918 Flu Pandemic |
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265 | (5) |
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1924 Pneumonic Plague in Los Angeles |
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270 | (5) |
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Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 |
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275 | (16) |
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Streptomycin Experiment Notebook |
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291 | (6) |
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On the Polio Vaccine Situation |
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297 | (10) |
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Disease in the Modern Era |
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307 | (16) |
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ACT UP Founding Document and Speech |
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323 | (7) |
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Retraction of Lancet Paper on MMR Vaccine and Autism |
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330 | (7) |
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Reports Concerning the H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic |
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337 | (9) |
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On the Spread of the Zika virus to the Americas |
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346 | (6) |
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California's Vaccination Law |
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352 | (9) |
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Interview Regarding the Coronavirus |
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361 | (5) |
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Remarks by President Trump and Vice President Pence on the Formation of the Coronavirus Task Force |
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366 | (9) |
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COVID-19 Brings Health Disparities Research to the Forefront |
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375 | (14) |
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389 | (6) |
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The Effects of Shell Shock |
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395 | (6) |
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An Army Physician on the 1918 Flu Pandemic |
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401 | (4) |
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The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Nature of An Atomic Explosion |
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405 | (6) |
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Biological Weapons Convention |
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411 | (30) |
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Substance Abuse and Public Health |
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The Nature and Occasions of Intemperance |
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441 | (10) |
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Address before the Second Biennial Convention of the World Women's Christian Temperance Union |
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451 | (10) |
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461 | (10) |
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471 | (8) |
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Alcoholics Anonymous "Big Book" |
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479 | (8) |
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Report of the Joint Committee of the American Bar Association and the American Medical Association on Narcotic Drugs |
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487 | (9) |
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Special Report: Smoking and Health |
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496 | (15) |
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Controlled Substances Act--Section 202 |
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511 | (10) |
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Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" Message to the Nation |
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521 | (6) |
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George Bush's Address to the Nation on National Drug Control Strategy |
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527 | (10) |
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Testimony from the 1994 Tobacco Hearings |
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537 | (10) |
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Statement and News Release regarding Purdue OxyContin Case |
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547 | (18) |
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565 | (2) |
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567 | (2) |
| Bibliography |
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569 | (14) |
| Index |
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