Literature Guide: Epidemics and Epidemiology

WCIU Journal: Health and Disease Topic

March 6, 2020

by Timothy Skinner, MLS

Editor’s Note: Also see this article in Christianity Today about the global coronavirus epidemic, by Stephen Ko, M.Div., M.D., who is a pastor in New York, formerly a Professor of Global Health and Pediatrics at Boston University (now adjunct), a medical officer at the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, and a contributor to a forthcoming Ralph D. Winter legacy book project, All Creation Groans: Toward a Theology of Disease.

Library of Congress Classification

RA 648.5 – RA 653.5 Epidemics                  

SF 780.9  Veterinary epidemiology

Dewey Decimal Classification

616 Diseases

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Black Death                                                    

Clinical epidemiology             

Communicable diseases—Transmission        

Comorbidity                           

Epidemics                                                       

Epidemiology

Forensic epidemiology                                   

Fungal diseases of plants—Epidemics

Health transition                                             

Influenza Epidemic, 1918–1919

Medical record linkage                                   

Molecular epidemiology                     

Pediatric epidemiology                                   

Pharmacoepidemiology                      

Plant diseases—Epidemics                             

Psychiatric epidemiology                   

Public health surveillance                               

Quarantine

Veterinary epidemiology                                

Reference Books

A Dictionary of Epidemiology (2008)            

Encyclopedia of Epidemiology (2008)

Reference Books with Relevant Articles or Chapters

American National Biography (1999)            

Biographical Dictionary of Medicine (1990)

Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine (1993). Ch. 52: “Epidemiology”

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (2008)

The Oxford Medical Companion (1994)

Books

(An asterisk indicates an e-book held by Latourette Library)

*Berkman, Lisa F., and Ichiro Kawachi. 2000. Social Epidemiology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

*Bhopal, Raj S. 2002. Concepts of Epidemiology: An Integrated Introduction to the Ideas, Theories, Principles, and Methods of Epidemiology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Broadbent, Alex. 2013. Philosophy of Epidemiology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

*Carneiro, Ilona, and Natasha Howard. 2011. Introduction to Epidemiology. New York: McGraw-Hill Education.

*Carr, Susan, Nigel Unwin, and Tanja Pless-Mulloli. 2007. An Introduction to Public Health and

Epidemiology. New York: McGraw-Hill Education.

Daniel, Thomas M. 2004. Wade Hampton Frost, Pioneer Epidemiologist 1889-1938: Up to the

Mountain. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press.

Hays, J. N. 2009. The Burdens of Disease: Epidemics and Human Response in Western History. New Bruswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Isaacs, David. 2020. Defeating the Ministers of Death. New York: HarperCollins.

The history of vaccination is rich with trial, error, sabotage and success. It encompasses the tragedy of lives lost, the drama of competition and discovery, the culpability of botched testing, and the triumph of effective, lifelong immunity. Yet with the eradication in the first world of some of humanity's deadliest foes, complacency has set in. We forget the power of these diseases at our peril.

Janes, Craig R., Ron Stall, and Sandra M. Gifford. 1986. Anthropology and Epidemiology: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Health and Disease. New York: Springer.

*Olsen, Jorn, Rodolfo Saracci, and Dimitrius Trichopoulos. 2010. Teaching Epidemiology. A Guide for Teachers of Epidemiology, Public Health, and Clinical Medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

Pierce, John R., and James V. Writer. 2005. Yellow Jack: How Yellow Fever Ravaged America and Walter Reed Discovered the Deadly Secrets. Denver: Wiley. 

Ranger, Terence, and Paul Slack, eds. 1992. Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Rasmussen, Sonja A., and Richard A. Goodman, eds. 2018. The CDC Field Epidemiology Manual. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

*Robertson, Leon S. 2007. Injury Epidemiology: Research and Control Strategies. Morrisville, NC: Lulu.

Rosenberg, Charles E. 1992. Explaining Epidemics, and Other Studies in the History of Medicine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

*Saracci, Rodolfo. 2010. Epidemiology: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Susser, Mervyn, and Zena Stein. 2009. Eras in Epidemiology: The Evolution of Ideas. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

*Thomas, Duncan C. 2009. Statistical Methods in Environmental Epidemiology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

Trostle, James A. 2005. Epidemiology and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

*Wassertheil-Smoller, Sylvia. 2004. Biostatistics and Epidemiology: A Primer for Health and Biomedical Professionals. 

*Wilkinson, Paul. 2006. Environmental Epidemiology. New York: Springer.

Books with Relevant Chapters

Browne, Stanley G., Frank Davey, and William A. R. Thomson, eds. 1985. Heralds of Health: The Saga of Christian Medical Initiatives. London: Christian Medical Fellowship.

            Ch. 7: “Epidemic Diseases.”

Dunlop, Robert H., and David J. Williams. 1996. Veterinary Medicine: An Illustrated History. St. Louis, MO: Mosby.

Ch. 16: “Logic in the Control of Plagues and the Understanding of Disease.”

Timothy Skinner, MLS, is the Librarian for William Carey International University and a member of Frontier Ventures.