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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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Bibliographic Details
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
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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 epidemic diseases.
Physical Description:1 online resource : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0192551582
9780192551580
9780191859984
0191859982
0192551590
9780192551597