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Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: A Eurasian Pandemic: The Black Death in Europe and the Middle East, 1347-1350 A: The Societal Impact of the Black Death in Italy Giovanni Boccaccio, Introduction to The Decameron, 1349-1351 B: Scapegoating & Jewish Pogroms during the Black Death in Germany Konrad of Megenberg, Treatise concerning the Mortality in Germany, 1350 C: Religious Responses to the Black Death in Muslim Spain and Syria Ibn al-Wardi, Essay on the Report of the Pestilence, c. 1348 Lisan al-Din Ibn al-Khatib, A Very Useful Inquiry into the Horrible Sickness, 1349-52 [1 map of spread of Black Death from Asia to Europe and 1 illustration, of Jewish pogrom.] Chapter 3: American Holocaust: Smallpox in the Americas, 1518-1670 A: Disease and the Conquest of Mexico Toribio de Benavente Motolinia, History of the Indians of New Spain, 1536-41Benardino de Sahagun, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain, 1585 B: Disease and the Colonization of New England William Bradford, History of Plymouth Plantation, 1633-34 C: Disease and the Colonization of New France Charles Albanel, Jesuit Relation of 1669-70 [1 illustration, from Florentine Codex.] Chapter 4: Disease and the Birth of Modern Medicine: Bubonic and Pneumonic Plague in India and China, 1896-1922 A: Bubonic Plague in Pune, India: The Native Response Newspaper Reports, February-September 1897 B: Bubonic Plague in Pune, India: The Official Response Letter from Major W.C. Reade to Sir Arthur Godley, March 3, 1898 Indian Plague Commission, Minutes of Evidence, February 24, 1899 C: Pneumonic Plague in Harbin, Manchuria Wu Liande, North Manchurian Plague Prevention Service Reports, 1918-1922 [2 illustrations, from Wu Liande.] Chapter 5: A Modern Plague: AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, 1981 to Present A: AIDS in Uganda: A "Multisectoral" Approach Yoweri Museveni, AIDS is a Socioeconomic Disease, 1991 B: AIDS in South Africa: The Tragedy of Denial Thabo Mbeki, Letter to World Leaders, April 3, 2000 C: Voices of AIDS: The Disease's Impact upon Women and Children Two Women's Stories: Mary Banda of Zambia and Dambudzo of Zimbabwe Two AIDS Activists: Speeches of Rosemary Mulenga of Zambia and Nkosi Johnson of South Africa [1 map of AIDS prevalence in Africa and 1 illustration, of AIDS billboard.] Chapter 6: Epilogue
