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This book is designed to be a practical study in infectious disease dynamics. It offers an easy-to-follow implementation and analysis of mathematical epidemiology. It focuses on recent case studies in order to explore various conceptual, mathematical, and statistical issues. The dynamics of infectious diseases shows a wide diversity of pattern. Some have locally persistent chains-of-transmission, others persist spatially in consumer-resource metapopulations. Some infections are prevalent among the young, some among the old and some are age-invariant. Temporally, some diseases have little variation in prevalence, some have predictable seasonal shifts and others exhibit violent epidemics that may be regular or irregular in their timing. Models and 'models-with-data' have proved invaluable for understanding and predicting this diversity, and thence help improve intervention and control. Using mathematical models to understand infectious disease, dynamics has a very rich history in epidemiology. The field has seen broad expansions of theories as well as a surge in real-life application of mathematics to dynamics and control of infectious disease. The chapters of Epidemics: Models and Data Using R have been organized as follows: chapters 1-10 is a mix and match of models, data and statistics pertaining to local disease dynamics; chapters 11-13 pertains to spatial and spatiotemporal dynamics; chapter 14 highlights similarities between the dynamics of infectious disease and parasitoid-host dynamics; Finally, chapters 15 and 16 overview additional statistical methodology useful in studies of infectious disease dynamics. This book can be used as a guide for working with data, models and 'models-and-data' to understand epidemics and infectious disease dynamics in space and time. All the code and data sets are distributed in the epimdr2 R package to facilitate the hands-on philosophy of the text.

Biomathematics. Biometry. Biostatistics --- Epidemiology --- biomathematica --- biostatistiek --- epidemiologie --- biometrie --- Communicable diseases. --- Epidemics. --- Epidemics --- Communicable Diseases. --- Software. --- statistics & numerical data. --- Epidèmies --- Malalties infeccioses --- Processament de dades --- R (Llenguatge de programació)

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Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to “plague writing” from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It argues that while the human “hardware” has changed enormously between the medieval past and the present the human “software” has remained remarkably similar across time. Through close readings of works by medieval writers like Guillaume de Machaut, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Geoffrey Chaucer in the fourteenth century, select plays by Shakespeare, and modern “plague” fiction and film, Alfred Thomas convincingly demonstrates psychological continuities between the Black Death and COVID-19. Thomas highlights the danger of scapegoating vulnerable minority groups such as Asian Americans and Jews in today’s America. This wide-ranging study will thus be of interest not only to medievalists but also to students of modernity as well as the general reader.

Philosophy --- Jewish religion --- Old English literature --- Literature --- History --- History of Europe --- cultuur --- filosofie --- literatuur --- Jodendom --- literatuurgeschiedenis --- Europese geschiedenis --- middeleeuwen --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1900-1999 --- Europe --- Peste noire --- Épidémies --- Minorités --- Literature, Medieval --- Literature, Modern --- Diseases and literature. --- Plague in literature. --- Epidemics in literature. --- Diseases in literature. --- Plague --- Epidemics --- Antisemitism. --- Violence. --- Aspect social --- Dans la littérature --- Histoire. --- Violence envers --- Crimes contre --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects. --- Literature, Medieval. --- Judaism and culture. --- Philosophy, Medieval. --- Medieval Literature. --- Literary Criticism. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Jewish Cultural Studies. --- Medieval Philosophy. --- History of Medieval Europe. --- 20th century. --- 476-1492.