| Description |
374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The western inheritance : Greek and Roman ideas about disease -- Medieval disease and responses -- The great plague pandemic -- New diseases and transatlantic exchanges -- Continuity and change : magic, religion, medicine, and science, 500-1700 -- Disease and the enlightenment -- Cholera and sanitation -- Tuberculosis and poverty -- Disease, medicine, and western imperialism -- The scientific view of disease and the triumph of professional medicine -- The apparent end of epidemics -- Disease and power |
| Summary |
"J. N. Hays chronicles perceptions and responses to plague and pestilence over two thousand years of western history. Disease is framed as a multidimensional construct, situated at the intersection of history, politics, culture, and medicine, and rooted in mentalities and social relations as much as in biological conditions of pathology. This revised edition of The Burdens of Disease also studies the victims of epidemics, paying close attention to the relationships among poverty, power, and disease."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 1998 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Diseases -- History.
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Diseases -- Social aspects -- History.
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Epidemics -- History.
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Epidemics -- Social aspects -- History.
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Disease Outbreaks -- history.
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Western World -- history.
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Disease Outbreaks -- history.
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Western World -- history.
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| SUBJECT |
Americas. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000569 |
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Europe. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005060 |
| Author |
Ebook Library.
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| LC no. |
2008051487 |
| ISBN |
9780813546124 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780813546131 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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