| Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence Contributor(s): Ranger, Terence (Editor), Slack, Paul (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0511563647 ISBN-13: 9780511563645 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $140.25 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: August 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | World - General - Medical | Epidemiology |
| Dewey: 614.49 |
| Series: Past and Present Publications |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Epidemic diseases have always been a test of the ability of human societies to withstand sudden shocks. How are such large mortalities and the illness of large proportions of the population to be explained and dealt with? How have the sources of disease been identified and controls imposed? The chapters in this book, by acknowledged experts in the history of their periods, look at the ways in which the great epidemic diseases of the past--from classical Athens to the present day--have shaped not only our views of medicine and disease, but the ways in which people have defined the health of society in general terms. |