ME 150.711

Disease Control: Comparative Perspectives

Instructors: Harry Marks and Randall Packard
Time: Fall 2002, Monday 1-3

September 9: Introduction

September 16: PLAGUE (1)

Giula Calvi, Histories of a Plague Year. The Social and the Imaginary in Baroque Florence (University of California Press, 1989), 1-198.

September 23: PLAGUE (2)

Paul Slack, The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England (Clarendon Press, 1985), 3-50, 199-341.

Richelle Munkhoff, "Searchers of the Dead: Authority, Marginality, and the Interpretation of Plague in England, 1574-1665," Gender & History, 11 (April, 1999), 1-29.

September 30: SMALLPOX (1)

Maisie May, "Inoculating the Urban Poor in the Late Eighteenth Century," British Journal for the History of Science, 30 (1997), 291-305.

Peter Skold, "From Inoculation to Vaccination: Smallpox in Sweden in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries," Population Studies, 50 (July, 1996), 247-262.

Peter Baldwin, Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930 (Cambridge University Press, 1999), 254-354.

Sanjoy Bhattacharya, "Re-Devising Jennerian Vaccines?: European Technologies, Indian Innovation and the Control of Smallpox in South Asia, 1850-1950," in Bisamoy Pati and Mark Harrison, eds. Health, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on Colonial India (London: Sangam Books, 2001), 217-269.

October 7: YELLOW FEVER (1)

Andrew L. Knaut, "Yellow Fever and the Late Colonial Public Health Response in the Port of Veracruz," Hispanic American Historical Review, 77 (1997), 619-644.

David Geggus, "Yellow Fever in the 1790s: The British Army in Occupied Saint Domingue," Medical History, 23 (1979), 38-58.

William Coleman, Yellow Fever in the North (University of Wisconsin Press, 1985), 25-138.

October 14: HOLIDAY

October 21: CHOLERA (1)

Peter Baldwin, Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930 (Cambridge University Press, 1999), 37-243.

October 28: CHOLERA (2)

Ira Klein, "Imperialism, Ecology and Disease: Cholera in India, 1850-1950," Indian Economic and Social History, 31 (1994), 491-518.

Ira Klein, "Urban Development and Death: Bombay City, 1870-1914," Modern Asian Studies, 20 (1986), 725-754.

Matthew Smallman-Raynor, "The Philippines Insurrection and the 1902-1904 Cholera Epidemic," Journal of Historical Geography, 24 (1998), 69-89, 188-210.

November 4: VECTOR BORNE DISEASE

Ilana Löwy,”Epidemiology, Immunology and Yellow Fever: The Rockefeller Foundation in Brazil, 1923-1939,” Journal of the History of Biology, 30, 3 (1997), 397-417.

Steven C. Williams, "Nationalism and Public Health: The Convergence of Rockefeller Foundation Technique and Brazilian Federal Authority During the time of Yellow Fever, 1925-1930," in Marcos Cueto, ed., Missionaries of Science. The Rockefeller Foundation and Latin America (Indiana University Press, 1994), 23-51.

Simon Flexner, "Epidemiology and Recent Epidemics," Science, 50 (October 3, 1919), 313-318.

Frank Snowden, "Fields of Death: Malaria in Italy, 1861-1962," Modern Italy, 4 (1999), 25-57.

Sheldon Watts, "British Development Policies and Malaria, 1897-1929," Past and Present, 165 (1999), 141-181.

Randall Packard and Paulo Gadelha, "Land Filled With Mosquitoes: Frederick Soper, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Anopheles Gambiae Invasion of Brazil, 1932-1939," Parassitologia, 36, 1-2 (1994), 197-214.

November 11: TUBERCULOSIS

Randall M. Packard, White Plague, Black Death

Allan Mitchell, "Obsessive Questions and Faint Answers: The French Response to Tuberculosis in the Belle Epoque," Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 62 (1988), 215-235

November 18: SLEEPING SICKNESS

Leroy Vail, "Ecology and History: The Example of Northeastern Zambia," Journal of Southern African Studies, 5, 1 (1975), 1-25

Maryinez Lyons, "From 'Death Camps' to Cordon Sanitaire: The Development of Sleeping Sickess Policy in the Uele District of the Belgian Congo, 1903-1914," Journal of African History , 26, 1 (1985), 69-91

James Giblin, "Trypanomiasis Control in African History: an Evaded Issues," Journal of African History, 31, 1 (1990), 59-80

Luise White, "Tsetse visions: Narratives of Blood and Bugs in Colonial Northern Rhodesia, 1931-39," Journal of African History, 36, 2 (1995), 219-245.

Hoppe, Kirk Arden, "Lord of the Fly: Colonial Visions and Revisions of African Sleeping-Sickness Environments on Ugandan Lake Victoria, 1906-61," Africa, 67, 1 (1997), 86-105.

November 25: PLAGUE (3)

Myron Echenberg, Black Death, White Medicine: Bubonic Plague and the Politics of Public Health in Colonial Senegal, 1914-1945 (Heinmann, 2002).

December 2: MALARIA and DDT

Randall Packard, "No Other Logical Choice: Malaria Eradication and the Politics of International Health," Parassitologia, 40, 1-1 (June 1998), 217-230.

Socrates Litsios, "Malaria Control, the Cold War, and the Postwar Reorganization of International Assistance," Medical Anthropology, 17, 3 (1997), 255-278.

Kalinga Tudor Silva, "'Public Health' for Whose Benefit? Multiple Discourses on Malaria in Sri Lanka," Medical Anthropology, 17, 3 (1997), 255-278.

December 9: SMALLPOX ERADICATION

Paul Greenough, "Intimidation, Coercion and Resistance in the Final Stages of the South Asian Smallpox Eradication Campaign, 1973-1975," Social Science and Medicine, 41 (1995), 633-645.

Perez Yekuteil, "Lessons from the big eradications Campaigns," World Health Forum, 2 (4) 1981: 465- 490.

Jack Hopkins, "Eradication of Smallpox: Organizational learning and Innovation in International health Administration," The Journal of Developing Areas, (April, 1988), 321.