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Prinzing, Friedrich
1916 Epidemics resulting from wars, by Dr. Friedrich Prinzing, ed. by Harald Westergaard, (Oxford, Clarendon Press; London, New York [etc.] H. Milford, 1916). [xii, 340, 6 p. 26 cm.; Series: Carnegie endowment for international peace. Division of].
[Harvard U.]
Countway Medicine: 11.A.260.
Countway Medicine: 33.F.1916.1
Widener: Med 1510.50
Zinsser, Hans
1935 Rats, lice and history : being a study in biography, which, after twelve preliminary chapters indispensable for the preparation of the lay reader, deals with the life history of typhus fever ... By Hans Zinsser, (Boston : Printed and pub. for the Atlantic Monthly Press by Little, Brown, and Company, 1935). [xii, 301 p. 22 cm.; "Published February, 1935. Reprinted February ... March ... June, 1935."].
[Harvard U.]
Biological Labs: RC199.Z5
Countway Medicine: 12 Q 1935
Countway Medicine: 12.Q.68.
Hilles: 616.9 Z79
Lamont: RC199.Z5
Widener: Med 1510.235.5
Widener: Med 1510.235
Sigerist, Henry E.
1943 Civilization and disease, by Henry E. Sigerist, (Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell university press, 1943). [xi, [1], 255 p. plates, ports., map, facsim. 24 cm.; "Based on a series of six Messenger lectures that I delivered at Cornell university ... 1940." "Notes" (bibliographical) at end of each chapter.].
[Harvard U.]
Countway Medicine: 1.F.1943.5
Countway Medicine: 1.F.799.
Hilles: 610.9 S57c
Lamont: R708.S59
Widener: Med 1510.243
Widener: Med 1510.243.5
Sigerist, Henry Ernest
1945 Civilization and disease, (Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell university press, 1945). [xi, [1], 255 p. plates, ports., map, facsim. 24 cm.; "Based on a series of six Messenger lectures that I delivered at Cornell university ... 1940." "Notes" (bibliographical) at end of each chapter.].
[Harvard U.]
Widener: Med 1510.243.5
Cohen, Mark Nathan
1965 The impact of European trade on the Benin kingdom of southern Nigeria, 1485-1897, ([Cambridge, Mass.], Harvard University. Dept. of Anthropology, Senior honors theses, 1965). [52 l. 29 cm.; Typewritten. Senior honors thesis, April 1965.].
[Harvard U.]
Tozzer: AFR.SUDAN C 660 i Case 8
Crosby, Alfred W.
1972 The Columbian exchange; biological and cultural consequences of 1492, (Westport, Conn., Greenwood Pub. Co. 1972). [xv, 268 p. ill. 22 cm.; ISBN: 0837158214 ; 0837172284 (pbk.); Series: Contributions in American studies ; no. 2; Other titles: Contributions in American studies ; no. 2; Bibliography: p. 222-260.].
[Harvard U.]
Andover-Harv. Theol: E98.D6 C7 1972
Botany Econ. Botany: E98.D6 C7
Countway Medicine: WC 11 C949c 1972
Countway Medicine: Lahey Rm. WC 11 C949c 1972 c.2
Lamont: E98.D6 C7
Schlesinger: 574.5 C949c
Tozzer: N.A.ETH. C 884 c
Widener: WID-LC E98.D6 C7
Widener: US 2263.26
Cloudsley-Thompson, J. L.
1976 Insects and history, (London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, c1976). [242 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.; ISBN: 0297771280; Series: The World naturalist; Other titles: The World naturalist; Includes index. Bibliography: p. 227-230.].
[Harvard U.]
Cabot Science: RA639.5.C57
Museum Comp Zoology: SB942.C57 x
Widener: WID-LC RA639.5.C57
Crosby, Alfred W.
1976 Epidemic and peace, 1918, (Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1976). [vi, 337 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.; ISBN: 0837183766; Includes bibliographical references and index.].
[Harvard U.]
Cabot Science: RC150.1.C76
Widener: WID-LC RC150.1.C76
McNeill, William Hardy
1976 Plagues and peoples, (Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press, 1976). [viii, 368 p. : map ; 22 cm.].
[Harvard U.]
Cabot Science: RA649.M3
Lamont: RA649.M3
Littauer: RA649.M3
Tozzer: SOM. M 232 p
Widener: WID-LC RA649.M3
Cohen, Mark Nathan
1977 The food crisis in prehistory : overpopulation and the origins of agriculture, (New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 1977). [x, 341 p. ; 22 cm.; ISBN: 0300020163; Includes index. Bibliography: p. 287-330.].
[Harvard U.]
Botany Econ. Botany: 90.4
Hilles: GN799.F6 C64
Lamont: GN799.F6 C64
Tozzer: ARC. C 660 f
Widener: WID-LC GN799.F6 C64
Dumbarton Oaks (P-C): GN799.F6 C64
Crosby, Alfred W; Viseltear, Arthur J.; Osborn, June E.; Millar, J. Donald
1977 History, science, and politics : influenza in America, 1918-1976 , (New York : Prodist, 1977). [135 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.; ISBN: 0882021761; Includes bibliographical references.].
[Harvard U.]
Cabot Science: RA644.I6 H57
Lamont: RA644.I6 H57
Widener: WID-LC RA644.I6 H57
Cook, Noble David
1981 Demographic collapse, Indian Peru, 1520-1620, (Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1981). [x, 310 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.; ISBN: 0521239958; Series: Cambridge Latin American studies ; 41; Other titles: Cambridge Latin American studies ; 41; Includes index. Bibliography: p. 281-297.].
[Harvard U.]
Tozzer: S.A. C 772 d
Widener: WID-LC F3429.3.P68 C66
Dumbarton Oaks (P-C): F3429.3.P68 C66
Cohen, Mark Nathan.; Armelagos, George J.
1984 Paleopathology at the origins of agriculture, (Orlando : Academic Press, 1984). [xx, 615 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.; ISBN: 0121790800 (alk. paper); "Proceedings of the Conference on Paleopathology and Socioeconomic Change at the Origins of Agriculture, sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the Hudson Symposium Fund of the State University of New York College at Plattsburgh, held April 25-May 1, 1982, at the State University of New York College at Plattsburgh, New York." Includes bibliographies and index.].
[Harvard U.]
Tozzer: L.SOC. 120.N.Y. 53.1
Crosby, Alfred W.
1986 Ecological imperialism : the biological expansion of Europe, 900-1900, (Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986). [xiv, 368 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.; ISBN: 0521320097 ; 0521336139 (pbk.); Series: Studies in environment and history; Other titles: Studies in environment and history; Includes index. Bibliography: p. 312-360.].
[Harvard U.]
Andover-Harv. Theol: GF50.C76 1986
Botany Arnold (Cambr.): GF50.C76 1986
Countway Medicine: GF 50 C949e 1986
Hilles: GF50.C76 1993x
History Dept: GF50.C76 1986
Lamont: GF50.C76 1986
Museum Comp Zoology: QL754.C75 1986
Widener: WID-LC GF50.C76 1986
Dumbarton Oaks (Byz): HG 59.P5C7
Patterson, K. David
1986 Pandemic influenza, 1700-1900 : a study in historical epidemiology, (Totowa, N.J. : Rowan & Littlefield, 1986). [xvii, 118 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.].
[Harvard U.]
Widener: WID-LC RC150.4.P38 1986
Clark, George A.; Kelley, Marc A; Grange, John M; Hill, M. Cassandra; Katzenberg, M. Anne; Klepinger, Linda L; Lovell, Nancy C; McGrath, Janet; Micozzi, Marc S; Steinbock, R. Ted; Weaver, David S
1987 "The evolution of mycobacterial disease in human populations; a reevaluation. (includes comments and reply)...," Current Anthropology, 28, (Feb, 1987), pp. 45-62. [ill. (table); 18 page(s) / ISSN 0011-3204. Includes: Tuberculosis summary for Narragansett burial ground, 1650-70. (table)].

Anon.
1987 "Who spread syphilis? (did disease come from Americas or Europe)," Newsweek, 110, (Sept 21, 1987), p. 73. [1 page(s) / ISSN 0028-9604.].

Budiansky, Stephen
1987 "Why these bones were so weary. (archaeologists research the history of diseases)," U.S. News & World Report, 103, (Oct 19, 1987), pp. 68-69. [ill. (photograph); 2 page(s) / ISSN 0041-5537.].

Anon.
1987 "Bad news bear. (evidence of syphilis in fossil bear found in Indiana)," Discover, 8, 12, (Dec, 1987), p. 8. [1 page(s) / ISSN 0274-7529.].

Wheeler, Pete
1988 "Stand tall to stay cool. (human upright stance may have evolved as device to keep cool)," New Scientist, 118, 1612, (May 12, 1988), pp. 62-65. [ill. (photograph, chart); 4 page(s) / ISSN 0262-4079. Includes: Biped loses heat faster since more surface area is higher above ground. (chart); Bipeds absorb 60% less heat in midday sun. (chart); In the hot savanna, air down among the plants is more humid. (chart); Antelopes have 'radiator', heat exchanger in the head; primates don't. (chart)].

Baker, Brenda J.; Armelagos, George J; Becker, Marshall Joseph; Brothwell, Don; Drusini, Andrea; Geise, Marie Clabeaux; Kelley, Marc A; Mortimoto, Iwataro; Morris, Alan G; Nurse, George T; Powell, Mary Lucas; Rothschild, Bruce M; Saunders, Shelley R; ; Stloukal, Milan; Storey, Rebecca
1988 "The origin and antiquity of syphilis: paleopathological diagnosis and interpretation. (includes comments and reply)...," Current Anthropology, 29, 5, (Dec, 1988), pp. 703-737. [*S4 Sexually transmitted diseases--origin; 35 page(s) / ISSN 0011-3204.].

Bulst, Neithard; Delort, Robert
1989 Maladies et societe, XIIe-XVIIIe siecles : actes du colloque de Bielefeld, novembre 1986, (Paris : Editions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique : Diffusion, Presses du CNRS, 1989). [420 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.; ISBN: 2222041996; English, French and German; summaries in French.].
[Harvard U.]
Widener: Harvard Depository RA418.M324 1989
Cohen, Mark Nathan
1989 Health and the rise of civilization, (New Haven : Yale University Press, c1989). [x, 285 p. ; 24 cm.; ISBN: 0300040067 (alk. paper); Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-270).].
[Harvard U.]
Countway Medicine: WA 30 C678h 1989
Hilles: RA418.C664 1989
Lamont: RA418.C664 1989
Tozzer: SOC. C 657.5 h
Widener: WID-LC RA418.C664 1989
Crosby, Alfred W.
1989 [Epidemic and peace, 1918] America's forgotten pandemic : the influenza of 1918, (Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1989). [xiv, 337 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.; ISBN: 0521385474 ; 0521386950 (pbk.); Reprint, with new pref. Originally published: Epidemic and peace, 1918. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1976. Includes bibliographical references.].
[Harvard U.]
Countway Medicine: WC 11.1 C949e 1989
Hilles: RC150.1.C76 1989
Lamont: RC150.1.C76 1989
Widener: WID-LC RC150.1.C76 1989
Benditt, John
1989 "The syphilized world; a recent survey suggests that syphilis is a New World disease," Scientific American, 260, 3, (March, 1989), p. 30. [1 page(s) / ISSN 0036-8733.].

Rosenberg, Charles E.
1989 "Disease in history: frames and framers," The Milbank Quarterly, 67, 1, (Spring, 1989), pp. 1-15. [15 page(s) / ISSN 0887-378X.].

Jankauskas, Rimantas; Saul, Susan, L
1989 "On the origin and antiquity of syphilis. (comment on Baker and Armelagos)," Current Anthropology, 30, 4, (August-Oct, 1989), pp. 481-482. [2 page(s) / ISSN 0011-3204.].

Monastersky, Richard
1990 "Reopening old wounds: physicians and paleontologists learn new lessons from ancient ailments. (dinosaurs)," Science News, 137, 3, (Jan 20, 1990), pp. 40-42. [ill. (photograph); 3 page(s) / ISSN 0036-8423.].

Johansson, S. Ryan
1990 "The Origins of Human Disease. (book review) reviewed," The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 21, 1, (Summer, 1990), pp. 118-122. [5 page(s) / ISSN 0022-1953. Review grade: B].

Reinhard, Karl J.
1990 "Archaeoparasitology in North America," American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 82, 2, (June, 1990), pp. 145-153. [ill. (map, forms, table); 9 page(s) / ISSN 0002-9483. Includes: Site location map of archaeoparasite finds outside of the southwestern US. (map); Archaeoparasites studies sites in the southwestern United States. (forms); Parasite finds from Anasazi coprolites. (table); Dates for prehistoric finds from North America. (table)].

Anon.
1990 "Modern diseases have ancient origins. (Science Briefs )," The Science Teacher, 57, 6, (Sept, 1990), pp. 21-22. [2 page(s) / ISSN 0036-8555.].

Cook, Noble David; Lovell, W. George
1991 Secret judgments of God : Old World disease in colonial Spanish America, (Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1991). [xxiii, 285 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.; ISBN: 0806123729 (alk. paper); Series: Civilization of the American Indian series ; v. 205; Other titles: Civilization of the American Indian series ; v. 205; Selected and edited papers from the 46th International Congress of Americanists, held in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 1988. Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-271) and index.].
[Harvard U.]
Tozzer: SPAN.AM. Se 25
Widener: WID-LC E59.D58 S43 1991
Dumbarton Oaks (P-C): E59.D58 S43 1991
Mack, Arien (ed.)
1991 In time of plague : the history and social consequences of lethal epidemic disease, (New York : New York University Press, c1991). [xii, 206 p. ; 24 cm.].
[Harvard U.]
Hilles: RA649.I5 1991
Lamont: RA649.I5 1991
Widener: WID-LC RA649.I5 1991
Zias, Joseph
1991 "Death and disease in ancient Israel," Biblical Archaeologist, 54, 3, (Sept, 1991), pp. 147-160. [ill. (photograph, chart); 14 page(s) / ISSN 0006-0895. Includes: Crucifixion (chart)].

Livingstone, David N.
1991 "The moral discourse of climate: historical considerations on race, place and virtue," Journal of Historical Geography, 17, 4, (Oct, 1991), pp. 413-434. [22 page(s) / ISSN 0305-7488.].

Lukacs, John
1992 "Dental paleopathology and agricultural intensification in South Asia: new evidence from bronze age Harappa," American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 87, 2, (Feb, 1992), pp. 133-150. [ill. (map, graph, table, photograph); 18 page(s) / ISSN 0002-9483.].

Ashmead, Albert S.
1992 "Pre-columbia syphilis and East Asia. (JAMA 100 Years Ago)," JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association, 267, 15, (April 15, 1992), p. 1999. [1 page(s) / ISSN 0098-7484.].

Ortner, Donald J.; Tuross, Noreen; Stix, Agnes I
1992 "New approaches to the study of disease in archeological New World populations," Human Biology, 64, 3, (June, 1992), pp. 337-360. [ill. (photograph, chart, diagram); 24 page(s) / ISSN 0018-7143.].

Allman, William F.
1992 "Climate and the rise of man. (global warming) (Cover Story)," U.S. News & World Report, 112, 22, (June 8, 1992), pp. 60-67. [ill. (photograph); 8 page(s) / ISSN 0041-5537.].

Wood,James W.; Milner, George R; Harpending, Henry C; Weiss, Kenneth M
1992 "Reply. (reply to Mark N. Cohen, Leslie E. Eisenberg, Dale N Hutchinson, Rimantas Jankaukas and Gintautas Cesnys, M. Anne Katzenberg, John R Lukacs, Janet W. McGrath, Eric Abella Roth,...," Current Anthropology, 33, 4, (August-Oct, 1992), pp. 365-367. [3 page(s) / ISSN 0011-3204.].

Merbs, Charles F.
1992 "A new world of infectious disease," Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 35, (Annual, 1992), pp. 3-42. [40 page(s) / ISSN 0096-848X.].

Ruffie, Jacques
1993 Les epidemies dans l'histoire de l'homme : essai d'anthropologie medicale, (Paris : Flammarion, c1993). [ii, 302 p. ; 22 cm.; Series: Nouvelle bibliotheque scientifique].
[Harvard U.]
Widener: Harvard Depository RA649.R83 1993x
Sandness, Karin L.; Green, John R
1993 "Lines of arrested growth in long bones of prehistoric and historic Nebraska Native Americans," Plains Anthropologist, 38, 143, (May, 1993), pp. 211-216. [ill. (table); 6 page(s) / ISSN 0032-0447.].

Hern, Warren M.
1993 "Is human culture carcinogenic for uncontrolled population growth and ecological destruction?," BioScience, 43, 11, (Dec, 1993), pp. 768-773. [ill. (chart); 6 page(s) / ISSN 0006-3568.].

Hughes, Patrick
1993 "Children of the cold: our species arose and flourished in an ice-age deep freeze," Weatherwise, 46, 6, (Dec-Jan, 1993), pp. 10-17. [ill. (chart, map); 8 page(s) / ISSN 0043-1672.].

Crosby, Alfred W.
1994 Germs, seeds & animals : studies in ecological history, (Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c1994). [xvi, 214 p. ; 24 cm.; ISBN: 1563242494 ; 1563242508 (pbk.); Series: Sources and studies in world history; Other titles: Germs, seeds, and animals.; Includes bibliographical references and index.].
[Harvard U.]
Cabot Science: GF50.C77 1994
Widener: WID-LC GF50.C77 1994
Kerr, Richard A.
1994 "Ancient tropical climates warm San Francisco gathering (American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco, California)," Science, 263, 5144, (Jan 14, 1994), pp. 173-175. [ill. (photograph); 3 page(s) / ISSN 0036-8075.].

Karlen, Arno
1995 Man and microbes : disease and plagues in history and modern times, (New York : Putnam, c1995). [266 p. ; 24 cm.].
[Harvard U.]
Cabot Science: RA649.K37 1995
Lamont: RA649.K37 1995
Widener: WID-LC RA649.K37 1995
Karlen, Arno
1995 Plague's progress : a social history of man and disease, (London : V. Gollancz, c1995). [266 p. ; 24 cm.].
[Harvard U.]
Widener: WID-LC RA651.K37 1995x
Settipane, Guy A. (ed.)
1995 Columbus and the New World : medical implications, (Providence, RI : OceanSide Publications, 1995). [xxi, 125 p. : ill.; 29 cm.; ISBN: 0936587075.].
[Harvard U.]
Countway Medicine: WA 11 DA2 C752 1995
Widener: Harvard Depository
Wills, Christopher
1995 Plagues : their origins, history and future, (London : HarperCollins, 1995). [; ISBN: 0002556111].
[Harvard U.]
Widener: Ordered--received
Zimmer, Carl
1995 "Carriers of extinction.(human diseases may have caused extinction of large mammals)," Discover, 16, 7, (July, 1995), pp. 28-29. [ill. (other); 2 page(s) / ISSN 0274-7529.].

Sade, Robert M.
1995 "A theory of health and disease: the objectivist-subjectivist dichotomy," The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 20, 5, (Oct, 1995), pp. 513-525. [13 page(s) / ISSN 0360-5310.].

Bower, Bruce
1995 "Brain evolution: climate shifts into gear. (climactic variation may have encouraged human brain expansion)(Science News of the Week)(Brief Article)," Science News, 148, 22, (Nov 25, 1995), p. 359. [1 page(s) / ISSN 0036-8423.].

Nikiforuk, Andrew
1996 The fourth horseman : a short history of epidemics, plagues, famine and other scourges, (Toronto : Penguin, 1996). [262 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.].
[Harvard U.]
Widener: WID-LC RA649.N55 1996x
Wills, Christopher
1996 Yellow fever, black goddess : the coevolution of people and plagues, (Reading, MA : Addison-Wesley Pub., 1996). [xii, 324 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.; ISBN: 0201442353 (alk. paper); "First published in the United Kingdom by HarperCollins Publishers under the title: Plagues : their origins, history, and future"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.].
[Harvard U.]
Cabot Science: RA649.W55 1996
Anon.
1996 "The origin of syphilis.(bone study suggests disease existed in the New World, but not Europe, before Columbus's voyages)(Brief Article)," Discover, 17, 10, (Oct, 1996), p. 23. [ill. (photograph); 1 page(s) / ISSN 0274-7529.].


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