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September 26: The Most Dangerous Women in America
In August of 1906, a mysterious cluster of typhoid fever cases erupted in a very unlikely setting--a summer house in wealthy Oyster Bay, Long Island. Typhoid fever, a bacterial disease spread by poor sanitation, was associated with slums and poverty, not wealthy communities. About 10 percent of those infected, died.
The owner hired a civil engineer, (George Soper) to discover the source of the disease, and the engineer soon focused on the new cook, Mary Mallon. In tracing her employment history, Soper found that typhoid outbreaks followed her wherever she was employed.
Website about the Documentary
What is Typhoid Fever?
Articles:
The Sad and Tragic Life of Typhoid Mary [link]
Books:
About Mary
Typhoid Mary : an urban historical / by Anthony Bourdain.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA644.T8 B68 2001
Typhoid Mary : captive to the public's health / Judith Walzer Leavitt.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA644.T8 L43 1996
The ballad of Typhoid Mary / J.F. Federspiel ; translated by Joel Agee.
Hodges Library / Stacks: PT2666.E37 B313 1983
Typhoid fever, its nature, mode of spreading, and prevention / William Budd.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA644.T8 B8 1977
Fighting for life [by] S. Josephine Baker, M.D.
Hodges Library / Stacks: HV28.B3 A3
Treatment of Immigrants:
Erin's daughters in America : Irish immigrant women in the nineteenth century / Hasia R. Diner.
Hodges Library / Stacks: H31 .J62 v.101 no.2
Fit to be citizens? : public health and race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 / Natalia Molina.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA448.4 .M65 2006
Silent travelers : germs, genes, and the "immigrant menace" / Alan M. Kraut.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA448.5.I44 K73 1994
Spread of Disease:
Epidemics and pandemics : their impacts on human history / J. N. Hays.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA649 .H293 2005
Mapping epidemics : a historical atlas of disease / Brent H. Hoff and Carter Smith III ; Charles H. Calisher
Ag-Vet. Med Library / Stacks: RA792 .H64 2000
Medicine:
Launching the antibiotic era : personal accounts of the discovery and use of the first antibiotics / edited by Carol
Hodges Library / Stacks: RM267 .L38 1990
Management of multiple drug-resistant infections / edited by Stephen H. Gillespie.
Hodges Library / Stacks: QR177 .M36 2004
Medicine at the border : disease, globalization and security, 1850 to the present / edited by Alison Bashford
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA441 .M44 2006
Working through an outbreak : pandemic flu planning and continuity of operations : hearing before the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, May 11, 2006.
Pandemic planning update II [electronic resource] : a report from Secretary Michael O. Leavitt.
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October 25: Confessions of a Germ--The Plague
Gruesome, swift, and devastating, the Black Death is aptly named. In this program, plague tells its chilling story, recounting its infamous epidemic outbreaks through the ages and detailing its grim pathology. Differences between bubonic and pneumonic forms are explained and illustrated with dramatizations of plague victims and interviews with survivors. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plague specialists Drs. Kenneth Gage and David Dennis discuss the battle in the American Southwest to contain this deadly pathogen. Dr. Ken Alibek, former director of the Soviet bioweapons program, and other experts look at the threat of plague's use in the future. A Discovery Channel Production. (51 minutes) -from the Films for Humanities and Sciences website
Websites
Black Death, British Brodcasting Co.
The Great Plague, British TV Channel 4
Books
The first horseman : disease in human history / John Aberth.
Hodges Library / Culture Corner 1st Floor: RA643 .A24 2007
Plague ports : the global urban impact of bubonic plague,1894-1901 / Myron Echenberg.
Hodges Library / Culture Corner 1st Floor: RA644.P7 E34 2006
The Black Death, 1346-1353 : the complete history / Ole J. Benedictow.
Hodges Library / Culture Corner 1st Floor: RC172 .B46 2004
Return of the Black Death : the world's greatest serial killer / Susan Scott and Christopher Duncan.
Hodges Library / Culture Corner 1st Floor: RC171 .S36 2004
Famine and pestilence in the late Roman and early Byzantine empire : a systematic survey of subsistence crises and epidemics / Dionysios Ch. Stathakopoulos.
Hodges Library / Stacks: R135 .S794 2004
Plague : a story of science, rivalry, and the scourge that won't go away / Edward Marriott.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC172 .M374 2003
Plague's progress : a social history of man and disease / Arno Karlen.
Hodges Library / Culture Corner 1st Floor: RA651 .K37 1995
The great mortality : an intimate history of the Black Death, the most devastating plague of all time / John Kelly.
Hodges Library / Culture Corner 1st Floor: RC172 .K445 2005
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November 14: Influenza and The Last Antibiotics (Double Feature)
Resources on the Influenza Pandemic of 1918>>
Resources on the overuse of Antibiotics>>
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Resources on the Influenza Pandemic of 1918
>>Did you know that the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 killed more people than World War I? Find out more...
Web Resources
Watch me first!>> The 1918 Flu, New York Times Multimedia Website
The Deadly Virus, a website from the US National Archives
1918 Influenza: the Mother of All Pandemics, from the Center for Disease Control
1918 Influenza Pandemic, Nature journal
Images from the 1918 Flu Pandemic, National Museum of Health and Medicine
Primary Resources
Advertisement for medicine to cure THE GRIP, New York Times
Spanish Influenza is Raging in the German Army, July 27, 1918, New York Times
Germans with Fever Drop in Tracks, July 9, 1918, New York Times
Spanish Influenza Continues Ravages, September 18, 1918, Altanta Constitution
Health Department Announcement Gives Instructions in Ways to Avoid the Infection, September 27, 1918, New York Times
72,327 GRIPPE Cases in U.S. Army Camps, October 1, 1918, Atlanta Constitution
3,000,000 People Died of Influenza, December 20, 1918, New York Times
Scientists Recreate 1918 Flu and See Parallels to Bird Flu, January 18, 2007, New York Times
Books in the UT Libraries
Britain and the 1918-19 influenza pandemic : a dark epilogue / Niall Johnson.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC150.6.G7 J64 2006
The great influenza : the epic story of the deadliest plague in history / John M. Barry.
Ag-Vet. Med Library / Stacks: RC150.4 .B37 2005
Fever of war : the influenza epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I / Carol R. Byerly.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC150.4 .B946 2005
The great influenza : the epic story of the deadliest plague in history / John M. Barry.
Hodges Library / Culture Corner 1st Floor: RC150.4 .B37 2004
America's forgotten pandemic : the influenza of 1918 / Alfred W. Crosby.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA644.I6 C76 2003
Hunting the 1918 flu : one scientist's search for a killer virus / Kirsty Duncan.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC150.6 .N8 D86 2003
The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-19 [electronic resource] : new perspectives / edited by Howard Phillips and David Killingray.
The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-19 : new perspectives / edited by Howard Phillips and David Killingray.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC150.4 .S66 2003
The devil's flu : the world's deadliest influenza epidemic and the scientific hunt for the virus that caused it / Pete Davies.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA644.I6 D38 2000
Influenza 1918 : the worst epidemic in American history / Lynette Iezzoni ; foreword by David McCullough.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC150.4 .I39 1999
Flu : the story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it / Gina Kolata.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC150.4 .K64 1999
Pandemic influenza, 1700-1900 : a study in historical epidemiology / K. David Patterson.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC150.4 .P38 1986
History, science, and politics : influenza in America, 1918-1976 / June E. Osborn, editor.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA644.I6 H57
Epidemic and peace, 1918 / Alfred W. Crosby, Jr.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC150.1 .C76
The plague of the Spanish lady : the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 / Richard Collier.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC150.4 .C64 1974
Epidemic respiratory disease.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC734 .O6
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Resources on Overuse of Antibiotics
Websites
Overview of Antibiotics, MedlinePlus
The Problem of Antimicrobial Resistance, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
Antibiotic Resistance, Food and Drug Administration
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), MedlinePlus
Books in the UT Libraries
Revenge of the microbes : how bacterial resistance is undermining the antibiotic miracle / Abigail A. Salyers and Dixie D. Whitt.
Hodges Library / Stacks: QR177 .S26 2005
The new killer diseases : how the alarming evolution of mutant germs threatens us all / Elinor Levy and Mark Fischetti.
Hodges Library / Stacks: QR177 .L475 2003
The killers within : the deadly rise of drug-resistant bacteria / Michael Shnayerson, Mark J. Plotkin.
Hodges Library / Stacks: QR177 .S43 2002
Breaking the antibiotic habit [electronic resource] : a parent's guide to coughs, colds, ear infections, and sore throats
Magic bullets, lost horizons [electronic resource] : the rise and fall of antibiotics / Sebastian G.B. Amyes.
Battling resistance to antibiotics and pesticides : an economic approach / edited by Ramanan Laxminarayan.
Hodges Library / Stacks: QR177 .B384 2003
Timebomb : the global epidemic of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis / Lee B. Reichman with Janice Hopkins Tanne.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC312 .R454 2002
Resolving the antibiotic paradox : progress in understanding drug resistance and development of new antibiotics / edited by Barry P. Rosen and Shahriar Mobashery.
Hodges Library / Stacks: QR177 .R47 1998
Antibiotic policies : theory and practice / edited by Ian M. Gould and Jos W.M. van der Meer.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RM267 .A495 2005
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