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Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence

Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence

Ranger, Terence
Slack, Paul
Ranger/Slack

Paperback

Series: Past and Present Publications

Medical ReferenceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 052155831X
ISBN13: 9780521558310
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 30 1995
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
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.

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