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Epidemics : hate and compassion from the plague of Athens to AIDS /

Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. investigates thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the 2014 Ebola outbreak to challenge the dominant hypothesis that epidemics invariably provoke hatred, blaming of the 'other', and victimising bearers of e...

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Main Author: Cohn, Samuel Kline, Jr (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Epidemics > History.
Epidemics > Social aspects > History.
Epidemics > history
Épidémies > Histoire.
Épidémies > Aspect social > Histoire.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
Epidemics
Epidemics > Social aspects
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Call Number: RA649 .C64 2018
 
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