Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 052155831X ISBN 13: 9780521558310

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1995

Riassunto

This volume examines the way in which epidemics have influenced ideas from the ancient world to AIDS today.

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Recensione

'Epidemics and Ideas shows how epidemics evoke a series of recognisable reactions and responses from society beyond the specifics of pathogen, place or time. It is a very modern book, which brings successfully together history, anthropology, sociology and other so-called social sciences with medicine, or at least with public health. It goes far beyond the earlier appreciation of the relationship between human society and diseases ... [and] brings a vast specialised literature about past epidemics and the response of society to them within reach of the general reader'. New Scientist

'... a remarkable cohesive and delightfully variegated book that brings medical and biological history into firm and fruitful contact with intellectual and social history ... This is, in short, a splendid book – subtle, informed, sophisticated and coherent. It shows how successfully the social history of epidemics has come of age in recent years'. The Journal of Social History

Contenuti

1. Introduction Paul Slack; 2. Epidemic, ideas and classical Athenian society James Longrigg; 3. Disease, dragons and saints: the management of epidemics in the Dark Ages Peregrine Horden; 4. Epidemic disease in formal and popular thought in early Islamic Society Lawrence I. Conrad; 5. Plague and perceptions of the poor in early modern Italy Brian Pullan; 6. Dearth, dirt and fever epidemics: rewriting the history of British 'public health', 1780–1850 John V. Pickstone; 7. Epidemics and revolutions: cholera in nineteenth-century Europe Richard J. Evans; 8. Hawaiian depopulation as a model for the Amerindian experience A. W. Crosby; 9. Plague panic and epidemic politics in India, 1896–1914 Rajnarayan Chandavarkar; 10. Plagues of beasts and men; prophetic responses to epidemic in eastern and southern Africa Terence Ranger; 11. Syphilis in colonial East and Central Africa: the social construction of an epidemic Megan Vaughan; 12. The early years of AIDS in the United Kingdom 1981–6: historical perspectives Virginia Berridge; Index.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 052155831X
• ISBN 13: 9780521558310
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 358
• Redattore: Ranger Terence
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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