Zero Grazing
John Ryle, 5 November 1992
To Blight with Plague: Studies in a Literary Theme
by Barbara Fass Leavy.
New York, 237 pp., £27.95, August 1992,0 8147 5059 1 Show More
by Barbara Fass Leavy.
New York, 237 pp., £27.95, August 1992,
Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence
edited by Terence Ranger and Paul Slack.
Cambridge, 346 pp., £35, April 1992,9780521402767 Show More
edited by Terence Ranger and Paul Slack.
Cambridge, 346 pp., £35, April 1992,
The Fourth Horseman: A Short History of Epidemics, Plagues and Other Scourges
by Andrew Nikiforuk.
Fourth Estate, 200 pp., £14.99, April 1992,1 85702 051 0 Show More
by Andrew Nikiforuk.
Fourth Estate, 200 pp., £14.99, April 1992,
In Time of Plague: The History and Social Consequences of Lethal Epidemic Disease
edited by Arien Mack.
New York, 272 pp., $35, November 1991,0 8147 5467 8 Show More
edited by Arien Mack.
New York, 272 pp., $35, November 1991,
Miasmas and Disease: Public Health and the Environment in the Pre-Industrial Age
by Carlo Cipolla, translated by Elizabeth Potter.
Yale, 101 pp., £16.95, March 1992,0 300 04806 8 Show More
by Carlo Cipolla, translated by Elizabeth Potter.
Yale, 101 pp., £16.95, March 1992,
International Journal of STD and Aids. Vol. II, Supplement I: Aids and the Epidemics of History
edited by Harry Rolin, Richard Creese and Ronald Mann.
Royal Society of Medicine, January 2000,0 00 956462 4 Show More
edited by Harry Rolin, Richard Creese and Ronald Mann.
Royal Society of Medicine, January 2000,
Monopolies of Loss
by Adam Mars-Jones.
Faber, 250 pp., £5.99, September 1992,0 571 16691 1 Show More
by Adam Mars-Jones.
Faber, 250 pp., £5.99, September 1992,
Aids in Africa: Its Present and Future Impact
edited by Tony Barrett and Piers Blaikie.
Belhaven, 193 pp., £35, January 1992,1 85293 115 9 Show More
edited by Tony Barrett and Piers Blaikie.
Belhaven, 193 pp., £35, January 1992,
“... Seventy-four years ago a viral pandemic began in America, most likely on a pig farm in Iowa. Fifteen months later it had killed over eighteen million people, 1 per cent of the world’s population, as many as died in two world wars, almost ten times as many as have died in a decade of Aids. The virus, transmitted by airborne mucus and saliva, spread via coughs and sneezes ... ”
