The Invisible Fire: The Story of Mankind's Victory Over the Ancient Scourge of Smallpox
By Joel N. Shurkin
(December 2000) - ISBN: 0595168671
Book Description:
The story of mankind's
victory over the ancient
scourge of smallpox.
Smallpox, one of the
deadliest of all
diseases, was
eradicated in 1979, the
only disease to have
been wiped from the
earth. The deadly virus
exists now only in a
few labs in the
world--we hope. But
before it was
conquered the disease
changed history.
Written by an
award-winning science
writer, The Invisible
Fire is the only
complete history of the
scourge and of the
brave and idiosyncratic
men and women who
defeated one of
nature's most lethal
viruses. Read more...
When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS
By James Cross Giblin
HarperTrophy, (May 1997)
ISBN: 0064461955
Grass Heart
By M. M. B. Walsh
University of New Mexico Press, (August 2001)
ISBN: 0826323383
Book Description:
In 1837 a smallpox
epidemic devastated
the Mandan Indians of
the Great Plains. This
remarkable novel
shows the horrifying
reality not only of the
epidemic but also of
Sioux slavery, cultural
plundering by
anthropologists, and
exile. The young
heroine is a Mandan
Indian, whose courage
and spirit recall the
heroines of M. M. B.
Walsh’s earlier novels.
We see Grass Heart
through her devotion to
her father, Good
Plume, whom she
rescues from
misfortune more than
once, her complex and
interesting relationship
with a young white
man, Jake Moon, and
her relationships with
Indian men, one of
whom turns out to be a
berdache. There are so
few novels that portray
the events of
colonization from the
point of view of the
colonized, and this one
does a fine job of
portraying characters
sympathetically on both
sides. The description
of smallpox and its
effects on indigenous
peoples is stunningly
powerful. Read more...
Smallpox Strikes
(The American Adventure #7)
By Norma Jean Lutz and Adam Wallenta
Barbour & Co, (December 1998)
ISBN: 1577481445
Letters of Edward Jenner and Other Documents Concerning the Early History of Vaccination
By Genevieve Miller, (Editor)
Johns Hopkins Univ Press, (July 1983)
ISBN: 0801829623
Surgeons, Smallpox, and the Poor: A History of Medicine and Social Conditions in Nova Scotia, 1749-1799
By Allan Everett Marble
McGill-Queens University Press, (March 1997)
ISBN: 0773516395
