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Insects, Hygiene and History

Insects, Hygiene and History

Hardcover

Series: History: Bloomsbury Academic Collections

Medical ReferenceBritish HistoryZoology

ISBN10: 147424176X
ISBN13: 9781474241762
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Nov 19 2015
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Busvine's introductory account of the evolutionary histories of insects and mites leads on to a fascinating study of human reactions to ectoparasites. It shows how the extent of man's curiosity about them and references to their prevalence provide a continuous commentary both on the history of biological science from Aristotle to the present day and on the modes and manners of ages past. Subjects of ribald verse, quack medicine and morbid imagination as well as literary symbols of piety, love and human insignificance, this is also the history of how medicine discovered that ectoparasites acted as transmitters for epidemic diseases.

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