The burdens of disease epidemics and human response in western history / J.N. Hays.

Author/creator Hays, J. N., 1938-
Format Electronic
EditionRev. ed.
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,
Descriptionxii, 374 p. ; 24 cm.
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 315-356) and index.
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LCCN 2008051487
ISBN9780813546124 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0813546125 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780813546131 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0813546133 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN40017311762

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