The burdens of disease epidemics and human response in western history / J.N. Hays.
By: Hays, J. N.
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2009Edition: Rev. ed.ISBN: 9780813546131.Subject(s): Epidemics -- History | Disease Outbreaks -- history -- Americas | Disease Outbreaks -- history -- Europe | Western World -- history -- Americas | Western World -- history -- EuropeGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | RA649 .H29 2009 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000006877 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-356) and index.
The western inheritance : Greek and Roman ideas about disease -- Medieval disease 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.
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