The burdens of disease : epidemics and human response in western history /
"In this sweeping approach to the history of disease, historian J.N. Hays chronicles perceptions and responses to plague and pestilence over two thousand years of Western history. Hays frames disease as a multidimensional construct, situated at the intersection of history, politics, culture, an...
| Основен автор: | Hays, J. N., 1938- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
℗♭1998.
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Print version::
Burdens of disease. |
Съдържание:
- The Western inheritance: Greek and Roman ideas about disease
- Medieval diseases and responses
- The Great Plague pandemic
- New diseases and transatlantic exchanges
- Continuity and change: magic, religion, medicine, and science, 500-1700
- Disease and the Enlightenment
- Cholera and sanitation
- Tuberculosis and poverty
- Disease, medicine, and Western Imperialism
- The scientific view of disease and the triumph of professional medicine
- The apparent end of epidemics
- Disease and power.