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Medical History in Special Collections

This LibGuide is built to encapsulate the wide reaches of medical history. It is intended to assist researchers and students with use of archives and print materials available at the University of Arkansas Libraries.

Yellow Fever

Yellow Fever & Public Health in the New South (1992)

Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793 (2014)

Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans (2017)

Plague Among the Magnolias: The 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Mississippi (2009)

Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds: Science and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic (2020)

Mosquito Warrior: Yellow Fever, Public Health, and the Forgotten Career of General William C. Gorgas (2024)

American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History (2007)

Yellow Fever in the North: The Methods of Early Epidemiology (1987)

The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade (2020)

Plague/ Black Death

The Plague in Print: Essential Elizabethan Sources, 1558-1603 (2010)

Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900s Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown (2004)

Suffering in Paradise: The Bubonic Plague in English Literature from More to Milton (2005)

Plagues, Poisons and Potions: Plague-Spreading Conspiracies in the Western Alps, 1530-1640 (2021)

A Journal of the Plague Year (2015)

Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography (2022)

Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe (2007)

Plague Ports: The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague, 1894-1901 (2007)

Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347-1600 (2015)

The Complete History of the Black Death (2021)

The Black Death in Egypt and England: A Comparative Study (2005)

Petrarch's War: Florence and the Black Death in Context (2018)

The Black Death: A Personal History (2008)

The Good Women of the Parish: Gender and Religion After the Black Death (2011)

Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death (2015)

The Black Death in the Middle East (2019)

Myths and Memories of the Black Death (2022)

The Black Death and Later Plague Epidemics in the Scandinavian Countries: Perspectives and Controversies (2016)

Cholera

Influenza

Modern Flu: British Medical Science and the Viralisation of Influenza, 1890-1950 (2023)

Pandemic Re-Awakenings: The Forgotten and Unforgotten 'Spanish' Flu of 1918-1919 (2021)

Flu Hunter: Unlocking the Secrets of a Virus (2018)

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it Changed the World (2017)

The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History (2004)

Flu:The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search of the Virus that Caused it (1999)

Global Flu and You: A History of Influenza (2012)

The Last Plague: Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada (2013)

Polio

Polio Wars: Sister Kenny and the Golden Age of American Medicine (2013)

Polio across the Iron Curtain: Hungary's Cold War with an Epidemic (2018)

In the Shadow of Polio: A Personal and Social History (1996)

Living with Polio: The Epidemic and its Survivors (2005)

Seven Wheelchairs: A Life Beyond Polio (2008)

Polio and its Aftermath: The Paralysis of Culture (2005)

The Polio Years in Texas: Battling a Terrifying Unknown (2009)

Bracing Accounts: The Literature and Culture of Polio in Postwar America (2008)

Polio: An American History (2005)

Selling Science: Polio and the Promise of Gamma Globulin (2016)

The Death of a Disease: A History of the Eradication of Poliomyelitis (2005)

Paralyzed with Fear: The Story of Polio (2013)

Dancing in My Dreams: Confronting the Spectre of Polio (2016)

Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio (2004)

The Politics of Polio in Northern Nigeria (2010)

The Vital Drop Communication for Polio Eradication in India (2008)

Malaria

Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909 (2017)

Humanity's Burden: A Global History of Malaria (2009)

The Fever Trail: In Search of the Cure for Malaria (2002)

The Miraculous Fever-Tree: Malaria and the Quest for a Cure that Changed the World (2003)

Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 (2010)

Landscapes of Disease: Malaria in Modern Greece (2018)

Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire (2018)

War and Disease: Biomedical Research on Malaria in the Twentieth Century (2009)

Enemy in the Blood: Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina (2012)

Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia: Deposing the Spirits (2015)

The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa (2014)

Disease, Colonialism, and the State: Malaria in Modern East Asian History (2009)

Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States (2001)

Malaria and Rome: A History of Malaria in Ancient Italy (2002)

Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula (2015)

Tuberculosis

The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France (1995)

Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History (2022)

Bargaining for Life: A Social History of Tuberculosis, 1876-1938 (2015)

Discovering Tuberculosis: A Global History, 1900 to the Present (2015)

Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life: 1909-1970 (2008)

Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles (2007)

Tuberculosis Then and Now: Perspectives on the History of an Infectious Disease (2010)

Making Uncertainty: Tuberculosis, Substance Use, and Pathways to Health in South Africa (2023)

Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease (2017)

Disease, Class and Social Change: Tuberculosis in Folkestone and Sandgate, 1880-1930 (2012)

Tuberculosis and the Tubercle Bacillus (2017)

Free Market Tuberculosis: Managing Epidemics in Post-Soviet Georgia (2013)

Good Tuberculosis Men: The Army Medical Department's Struggle with Tuberculosis (2013)

Smallpox