War Epidemics
An Historical Geography of Infectious Diseases in Military Conflict and Civil Strife, 1850-2000
M. R. Smallman-Raynor and A. D. Cliff
Price: £130.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-823364-0
Publication date: 17 June 2004
848 pages, 202 figures, 32 plates, 132 tables, 234x156 mm
Series: Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series
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| - 'There is much that historians can learn from this large volume, which convincingly demonstrates the value of a quanttative approach to the study of epidemics in wartime.' - Mark Harrison, Medical History
- '"impressive scholarship that will make War Epidemics <\b> an indispensable work in its field."' - Journal of the History of Medicine
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| Description | | - A multidisciplinary treatment
- Includes quantitative analysis not usually associated with historical studies
- Extensively illustrated
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Down the ages, war epidemics have decimated the fighting strength of armies, caused the suspension and cancellation of military operations, and have brought havoc to the civil populations of belligerent and non-belligerent states alike. This book examines the historical occurrence and geographical spread of infectious diseases in association with past wars. It addresses an intrinsically
geographical question: how are the spatial dynamics of epidemics influenced by military operations and the directives of war? The term historical geography in the title indicates the authors' primary concern with qualitative analyses of archival source materials over a 150-year time period from 1850, and this is combined with quantitative analyses less frequently associated with historical
studies.
Written from the viewpoints of historical geography, epidemiology, and spatial analysis, this book examines in four parts the historical occurrence and geographical spread of infectious diseases in association with wars. Part I: War and Disease
, surveys war-disease associations from early times to 1850. Part II: Temporal Trends
studies time trends since 1850. Part III: A
Regional Pattern of War Epidemics
, examines grand themes in the war-disease complex. Part IV: Prospects
, considers a series of war-related issues of epidemiological significance in the twenty-first century.
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Readership: Students and scholars in demography, military and economic history, and the history of medicine
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Prologue
I: Ware and Disease
1.
Wars and War Epidemics
2.
Epidemics in Early Wars
II: Temporal Trends
3.
Mortality and Morbidity in Modern Wars, I: Civil Populations
4.
Mortality and Morbidity in Modern Wars, II: Military Populations
5.
Motality and Morbidity in Modern Wars, III: Displace Populations
III: A Regional Pattern of War Epidemics
6.
Tracking Epidemics
7.
Pan America: Military Mobilization and Disease in the United States
8.
Europe: Camp Epidemics
9.
Asia and the Far East: Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases
10.
Africa: Soldiers, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and War
11.
Oceania: War Epidemics in South Pacific Islands
12.
Further Regional Studies
IV: Prospects
13.
War and Disease: Recent Trends and Future Threats
Epilogue
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| Authors, editors,
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M. R. Smallman-Raynor, Reader in Analytical Geography, University of Nottingham and
A. D. Cliff, Professor of Theoretical Geography, Cambridge University
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