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

  • Alcabes, Philip.
Date:
[2009], ©2009
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Publication/Creation

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

Physical description

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

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Bibliographic information

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

Contents

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.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 9781586486181
  • 1586486187