Disease Pandemics, and Public Health in the United States: List of Core Readings
Selections from the following books, websites, or articles will be required reading for participants. It is expected that participants complete the assigned reading in advance of each day’s session. Books will be provided to participants if several chapters are required. Copies of articles or shorter readings will be available online ahead of time.
Douglas C. Baynton, “Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History,” in The New Disability History: American Perspectives, Paul K. Longmore and Lauri Umansky, eds. (New York University Press, 2001)
Nancy Bristow, American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds in the 1918 Influenza Epidemic (Oxford University Press, 2012)
James Colgrove, State of Immunity: The Politics of Vaccination in Twentieth Century America (University of California Press, 2006)
John Duffy, The Sanitarians: A History of American Public Health (University of Illinois Press, 1992)
Mariola Espinosa, Epidemic Invasions: Yellow Fever and the Limits of Cuban Independence, 1878-1930 (University of Chicago Press, 2009)
J.N. Hays, The Burdens of Disease: Epidemics and Their Response in Western History, 2nd ed. (Rutgers University Press, 2009)
Conrade C. Hinds, The Great Columbus Experiment of 1908: Waterworks that Changed the World, (The History Press, 2012)
Allan V. Horvitz, PTSD: A Short History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018)
Influenza Epidemic Digital Encyclopedia, https://www.influenzaarchive.org
Judith Walzer Leavitt, Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public’s Health (Beacon Press, 1996)
Jay Lemery, Kim Knowlton, and Cecilia, Sorenson, eds. Global Climate Change and Human Health: From Science to Practice, 2nd ed. (Jossey-Bass, 2021)
Paul K. Longmore, Telethons: Spectacle, Disability, and the Business of Charity (Oxford University Press, 2016)
Alfredo Morabia, The Public Health Approach: Population Thinking from the Black Death to COVID-19 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023)
Marian Moser Jones, Protecting Public Health: 200 Years of Leadership, (New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, 2005)
Samuel Roberts: Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation (UNC Press, 2009)
Daniel J. Wilson, Living with Polio: The Epidemic and its Survivors (University of Chicago Press, 2005)
UCSF AIDS History Project website, https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/aids/.
Miranda Worthen, et al, “Anger and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Severity in a Trauma-Exposed Military Population: Differences by Trauma Context and Gender,” Journal of Traumatic Stress, Feb. 2016, 29, 1-8.