Reading List

PLAGUES IN MAN ISC 2937, R. H. REEVES Reading List

Required Reading:

1) Kruif, P. d. 1926. Microbe Hunters. Harcourt Brace, Orlando. 2) Oldstone, M. B. A. 1998. Viruses, Plagues, and History. Oxford University Press, New York. 3) Rhodes, R. 1997. Deadly Feasts. Simon and Schuster, New York.

Supplemental Reading - Fiction (select one):

1) Anderson, L.H. Fever 1793. AND Myers, A. Graveyard Girl 2) Benson, A. 1997. The Plague Tales. Dell Publishing, New York 3) Brooks, G. 2001. Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague. Penguin Books, New York. 4) Camus, A. 1948. The Plague. (Published by Vintage International in 1991.) 5) Case, J. 1998. The First Horseman. Random House, New York 6) Cook, R. 1996. Contagion. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York 7) Cook, R. 1987. Outbreak. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York 8) Crichton, M. 1969. The Andromeda Strain. Knopf, New York 9) Crichton, M. 2002. Prey. HarperCollins, New York 10) Defoe, D. 1722. A Journal of the Plague Year. (in 2001 published by Modern Library Classics). 11) Fisher, R. D. 2000. The Plague Merchants. Writer's Showcase Press, New York 12) Fujii, J. N. 2000. Viral Consequences. Writer's Showcase Press, New York 13) Gerritsen, T. 1997. Life Support. Pocket Books, New York. 14) Ludlum, R. 2002. The Cassandra Compact. St. Martins Paperbacks, New York 15) Lynch, P. 1995. Carriers. Berkley Books, New York. 16) Lynch, P. 1998. Omega. Signet, New York. 17) Marr, J. & J. Baldwin 1998. The Eleventh Plague. HarperCollins, New York 18) Ovellette, P. 1997. The Third Pandemic. Pocket Books, New York. 19) Preston, R. 1995. The Hot Zone. Anchor Books, New York 20) Preston, R. 1997. The Cobra Event. Ballantine Books, New 21) Shelley, M. W. 1826. The Last Man. (Published by Oxford University Press, 1998)

* The two starred below may also be chosen (see me)

Optional Reading - Non-Fiction: 1) Anderson, R. P. 2006. Outbreak: Cases in Real-World Microbiology. ASM Press, Washington, DC 2) Bray, R. S. 1996. Armies of Pestilence. The Lutterworth Press, Cambridge 3) Crosby, A. W. 1989. America’s Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 4) DeSalle, R. 1999. Epidemic!: The World of Infectious Diseases. W.W. Norton & Co. New York 5) Dubos,R and J. Dubos 1952. The White Plague. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ 6) Eberhart-Phillips, J. 2000. Outbreak Alert. New Harbinger Publications, Oakland, CA 7) Farrell, J. 2005. Invisible Enemies : Stories of Infectious Disease. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York 8) Garrett, L. 1994. The Coming Plague. HarpersCollins. 9) Giblin, J. C. 1995. When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS. HarperCollins, New York 10) Gotfried, R. S. 1983. The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe. The Free Press, New York 11) Guillemin, J. 1999. Anthrax: The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak. University of California Press, Los Angeles 12) Horsburgh, C. R., and A. M. Nelson (ed.). 1997. Pathology of Emerging Infections. ASM Press, Washington, DC 13) Karlen, A. 1995. Man and Microbes. Simon and Schuster, Inc., New York *14) Kolata, G. 1999. Flu. Touchstone, New York 15) McCormick, J. B., and S. Fisher-Hoch. 1996. Level Four - Virus Hunters of the CDC. Barnes and Noble Books 16) McNeill, W. H. 1976. Plagues and Peoples. Anchor Books, New York. 17) Miller, J., S. Engelberg and W. Broad. 2001. Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War. Simon & Schuster 18) Morse, S. S. (ed.). 1993. Emerging Viruses. Oxford University Press, New York. 19) O'Brien, T. J. 2000. West Nile: Outbreak in New York City. Xlibris Corporation. 20) Phillips, J. E. 2000. Outbreak Alert. New Harbinger Publications, Inc., Oakland 21) Platt, C. 1997. King Death: The Black Death and it aftermath in Late-Medieval England. University of Toronto Press, Toronto. 22) Powell, J. H., et al. 1993. Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. *23) Roueché, B. 1947. Eleven Blue Men and Other Tales of Medical Detection. Berkley Publishing Company, New York. (Much of this has been more recently published as "The Medical Detectives") 24) Scheld, W. M., D. Armstrong, and J. M. Hughes (ed.). 1998. Emerging Infections. ASM Press, Washington DC. 25) Sherman, I. W. 2006. The Power of Plagues. ASM Press, Washington, DC 26) Watts, S. 1997. Epidemics and History. Redwood Books, Wiltshire, Great Britain. 27) Zinnser, H. 1934. Rats, Lice and History. Little, Brown and Company, New York. (1963. Black Dog & Leventhal, New York.)