The power of plagues / Irwin W. Sherman.

Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, [2006], ©2006.

ix, 431 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-419) and index.

The nature of plagues.-- Plagues, the price of being sedentary.-- Six plagues of antiquity.-- An ancient plague, the black death.-- A modern plague, AIDS.-- Typhus, a fever plague.-- Malaria, another fever plague.-- King cholera.-- Smallpox, the spotted plague.-- Preventing plagues.-- The plague protectors.-- The great pox syphilis.-- The people's plague: tuberculosis.-- Leprosy, the striking hand of God.-- Six plagues of Africa.-- Plagues without germs.-- Plagues on order.