Books

Leonard A. Cole, The Eleventh Plague: The Politics of Biological and Chemical Warfare. New York: Freeman, 1997. Describes modern history of chemical and biological weapons, including American tests using "harmless" bacteria, and expresses hope that global disgust with such weapons will keep them from being used.

Phyllis Corzine, The Black Death. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, 1997. Discusses the profound social, psychological, political, spiritual, and economic changes in medieval Europe brought about by the plague.

Jacqueline L. Harris, Communicable Diseases. New York: TFC Books, 1993. Book for young people describing contagious diseases caused by different types of microbes, including how they are spread and how they are treated.

Arno Karlen, Man and Microbes: Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Times. New York: Putnam, 1995. Focuses on history of past epidemics but also describes the present threat of emerging and the returning epidemic diseases.

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