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The burdens of disease : epidemics and human response in western history
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- Creator
- J.N. Hays
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Revised edition
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- xii, 374 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780813546124, 9780813546131, 0813548179, 128049350X, 9780813548173, 9786613588739, 0813546125, 0813546133
- OCLC
- ocn276668858, ocn593295656, on1121057000
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 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
Subjects
- Epidemics -- History.
- Disease Outbreaks -- history -- Americas.
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- Disease Outbreaks -- history -- Europe.
Medical Subject Heading
- Western World -- history -- Americas.
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- Western World -- history -- Europe.
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