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The burdens of disease : epidemics and human response in western history
- Title
- The burdens of disease : epidemics and human response in western history / J.N. Hays.
- Author
- Hays, J. N.
- Publication
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1998.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 361 p.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-344) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 99-12934
- ISBN
- 0813525276 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0813525284 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 97039328 //r98
- OCLC
- 37935073
- Author
- Hays, J. N.
- Title
- The burdens of disease : epidemics and human response in western history / J.N. Hays.
- Imprint
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1998.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-344) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 99-12934