Epidemics, Pandemics, and Plagues: A Historical Reference Guide

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Epidemics, Pandemics, and Plagues: A Historical Reference Guide will explore the history of past epidemics and their effect on human populations and address the current era of coronaviruses. The book will explore effects of rampant diseases on human and animal populations and will address the socio-economic factors that often leave the underserved and minority populations at greater risk than the wealthier. The Guides content will examine medical, social, political, economic, and philosophical aspects of pandemics, as well as transmission routes and disease vectors. Historians, clinicians, and health policy specialists debate questions such as: What is a plague vs. pandemic Where does a pandemic begin When does a pandemic end How is communication about a disease or pandemic relayed to people These are many of the questions we see in our current world as people struggle with COVID-19.

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Lisa A. Mix is the Director of University Archives & Special Collections at California State University, Fullerton. She has worked in archives and historical collections at several academic medical centers, including Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, the University of California San Francisco, and New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. At UCSF she led efforts to document the history of the AIDS epidemic. She has published and presented widely on archives and on history of the health sciences. She was the 2020 recipient of the Lisabeth M. Holloway Award from Librarians, Archivists, and Museum Professionals in the History of the Health Sciences, and is Vice President of the Society of California Archivists.

Judy C. Stribling is a professional researcher, published author, and editor. She formed and ran a company that provided library services to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from1989- 1998. She then worked as the assistant director of Clinical Services at the Samuel J. Wood Library & C.V. Starr Biomedical Information Center at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is the editor of The Clinical Medical Librarian's Handbook.