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Plagues & Peoples: Books

Guide originally created for an anthropology course on the history of disease and its impact on human societies.

MU's Books

Find a Specific Book- Use if you already know what book you need.

MERLIN  - For books held by MU

MOBIUS - For books you can borrow from other Missouri libraries

Request an Item/ILL@MU - For books not available in Missouri

Subject Headings

These Library of Congress Subject Headings can be searched directly (MERLIN Subject Search) or added to a keyword search, e.g., "public health surveillance and encephalopath*"

  • Clinical epidemiology
  • Diseases and history
  • Diseases -- history
  • Epidemiology
  • Epidemics
  • Public health surveillance

Names of diseases are also usually searchable as subject headings.

MU's Searchable E-Books

Search Inside Books with Google Books

Look for the Find In a Library link to locate copies of the books you find here.

When searching, use quotation marks to force Google to search for phrases instead of just words: "yellow fever epidemic of"

Google Book Search

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