Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence (Past and Present Publications) - Hardcover

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9780521402767: Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence (Past and Present Publications)
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ISBN 10: 052140276X ISBN 13: 9780521402767
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1992

Synopsis

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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The chapters in this book 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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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1992
Language
English
ISBN 10 
052140276X
ISBN 13 
9780521402767
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
356
Editor
Ranger Terence, Slack Paul
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