Sources from Episode 121

  1. William C. Campbell, “History of Trichinosis: Paget, Owen, and the Discovery of Trichinella Spiralis,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 53 (1979): 520-552.

  2. Dickson D. Despommier, People, Parasites, and Plowshares: Learning from Our Body’s Most Terrifying Invaders (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013).

  3. Frank N. Egerton, “History of the Ecological Sciences, Part 46: From Parasitology to Germ Theory,” Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 94.2 (April 2013), pp. 136–164.

  4. Rosemary Drisdelle, Parasites: Tales of Humanity’s Most Unwelcome Guests (University of California Press 2010) [MCL].

  5. Jonathan Lamb, Preserving the Self in the South Seas, 1680–1840 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001).

  6. Brenda Gardenour and Misha Tadd eds., Parasites, Worms, and the Human Body in Religion and Culture (Peter Lang 2012).

  7. Jacob Roberts, “The Parasites in Our Past,” Distillations: Science, Culture, History, Science History Institute (Fall 2018/Winter 2019), https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/the-parasites-in-our-past.

  8. Robert Buckman, Human Wildlife: The Life That Lives on Us (Johns Hopkins University Press 2003) [PSU].

  9. Justyna Jajszczok, The Parasite and Parasitism in Victorian Literature and Culture (PhD Dissertation, University of Silesia 2017).

  10. Sudarsana Srinivasan, “History of Discovery,” Parasites and Pestilence: Infectious Public Health Challenges, Stanford University, 2002, https://web.stanford.edu/class/humbio103/ParaSites2002/cutaneous_larva_migrans/history%20of%20discovery.html.

  11. Sarah Cleary, “‘Maggot Maladies’: Origins of Horror as a Culturally Proscribed Entertainment,” The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature (Palgrave 2018), pp. 391–406.

  12. “This May Be the Ocean’s Most Horrifying Monster (And You’ve Probably Never Heard of It),” The Helm Lab Blog, October 2018, https://jellybiologist.com/2018/10/31/this-may-be-the-oceans-most-horrifying-monster-and-youve-probably-never-heard-of-it/.

  13. R. Roncalli Amici, “Historical Perspectives on the Importance and Impact of Oestrids,” in The Oestrid Flies: Biology, Host-parasite Relationships, Impact, and Management edited by Douglas D. Colwell, et al., (Oxford, UK: CAB International 2006) [MCL].

  14. Christy Tidwell, “Monstrous Natures Within: Posthuman and New Materialist Ecohorror in Mira Grant’s Parasite,” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literaturre and Environment 21.3 (Summer 2014), pp. 538–549.

  15. K. Fuller, “Hookworm: Not a Pre-Columbian Pathogen,” Medical Anthropology 17.4 (June 1997), pp. 297–308.

  16. Francis E.G. Cox, “History of Human Parasitology,” Clinical Microbiology Reviews 15.4 (October 2002), pp. 595–612.

  17. Luigi Belloni, "Redi, Francesco." Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 11 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2008), pp. 341-343.

  18. A. Ioli, J.C. Petithory, and J. Theodorides, Abstract for “Francesco Redi and the Birth of Experimental Parasitology,” History of Scientific Medicine 31.1 (April–June 1997), pp. 61–6.

  19. Guy Vanthemsche, “Stanley, Henry Morton,” Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450, ed. Thomas Benjamin, vol 3. (Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference 2007), pp. 152–153.

  20. Ciaran Conliffe, “Henry Stanley, The Man Who Stole the Congo,” HeadStuff, 25 August, 2018, https://www.headstuff.org/culture/history/henry-stanley-the-man-who-stole-the-congo.

  21. Edward Berenson, Heroes of Empire: Five Charismatic Men and the Conquest of Africa (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011).

  22. H. Harold Scott, A History of Tropical Medicine, vol. 1 (London: Edward Arnold & Co. 1939).

  23. Roy Porter, Blood & Guts: A Short History of Medicine (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013).

  24. Felix Driver, “Henry Morton Stanley and His Critics: Geography, Exploration, and Empire,” Past & Present 133 (November 1991), pp. 134–166.

  25. Eldryd H. O. Parry, “‘To sleep, to die’ (with apologies to Hamlet),” Brain 131.5 (May 2008), pp. 1402–1407.

  26. Alastair Compston, Editorial, Brain 131.5 (May 2008), pp. 1163–1164.

  27. Daniel R. Headrick, “Sleeping Sickness Epidemics and Colonial Responses in East and Central Africa, 1900–1940,” PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 8.4 (April 2014), e2772.

  28. James Giblin, “Trypanosomiasis Control in African History: An Evaded Issue?,” The Journal of African History 31.1 (March 1990), pp. 59–80.

  29. Marcella Alsan, “The Effect of the TseTse Fly on African Development,” The American Economic Review 105.1 (January 2015), pp. 382–410.

  30. Maggie J. Watson, “What Drives Population-Level Effects of Parasites?: Meta-analysis Meets Life-history,” International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 2 (December 2013), pp. 190–196.