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The Burdens of disease : epidemics and human response in western history /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hays, J. N.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [1998]
Subjects:
Disease Outbreaks > history > America.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Western inheritance : Greek and Roman ideas about disease
  • Medieval diseases 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 povertry
  • Disease, medicine and Western imperialism
  • The scientific view of disease and the triumph of professional medicine
  • The apparent end of epidemics
  • Disease and power