Scott, Susan (Author)
Duncan, C J. (Author)
Cambridge University Press
Physical Details: xiv + 420 pp., illus., maps, bibl., index
Language: English
Description Applies modern concepts of epidemiology, molecular biology and computer-modelling to an analysis of plagues from the Black Death in 1300s to the Plague of London, 1665 to show that they were not outbreaks of bubonic plague.
Review Slack, Paul (2002) Review of "Biology of Plagues: Evidence from Historical Populations". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (p. 364).
Essay Review Carmichael, Ann (2003) Plague and More Plagues. Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period (pp. 253-266).
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