Plagues in World History provides a concise, comparative world
history of catastrophic infectious diseases, including plague,
smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, influenza, and AIDS.
Geographically, these diseases have spread across the entire globe;
temporally, they stretch from the sixth century to the present.
John Aberth considers not only the varied impact that disease has
had upon human history but also the many ways in which people have
been able to influence diseases simply through their cultural
attitudes toward them. The author argues that the ability of humans
to alter disease, even without the modern wonders of antibiotic
drugs and other medical treatments, is an even more crucial lesson
to learn now that AIDS, swine flu, multidrug-resistant
tuberculosis, and other seemingly incurable illnesses have raged
worldwide. Aberth's comparative analysis of how different societies
have responded in the past to disease illuminates what cultural
approaches have been and may continue to be most effective in
combating the plagues of today.
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