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History of Infectious Disease Pandemics in Urban Societies

by Mark D. Hardt

The past: human populations prior to sedentary life styles -- Origins of the urban death penalty: civilized diseases -- The first rural-urban turnaround -- Infectious diseases and medical traditions in the levant -- Emergence of the enlightenment -- Advancement of science and medicine -- Inoculation and infectious disease -- A review of the urban death penalty -- Postlogue.