Dread : how fear and fantasy have fueled epidemics from the Black Death to avian flu / Philip Alcabes.

New York : PublicAffairs, [2009], ©2009.

vii, 313 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

The sense of an epidemic -- Plague : birth of the model epidemic -- Cholera, poverty, and the politicized epidemic -- Germs, science, and the stranger -- The conquest of contagion -- Postmodern epidemics -- Managing the imagined epidemic.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-296) and index.