Epidemics : hate and compassion from the plague of Athens to AIDS / Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.

  • Cohn, Samuel Kline, Jr.
Date:
2018
  • Books

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Description

In this study, Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. investigates hundreds 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 victimizing bearers of epidemic diseases.

Publication/Creation

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Physical description

viii, 643 pages : black and white illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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Edition

First edition.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 559-608) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    FF/COH
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780198819660
  • 0198819668