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Confronting Contagion - Our Evolving Understanding of Disease (Hardcover)
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Confronting Contagion - Our Evolving Understanding of Disease (Hardcover)
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Throughout history, mankind's working theories regarding the cause
of infectious disease have shifted drastically, as cultures
developed their philosophic, religious, and scientific beliefs.
Plagues that were originally attributed to the wrath of the god
Apollo were later described by Thucydides as having nothing to do
with the gods, though the cause was just as much a mystery to him
as well. As centuries passed, medical and religious theorists
proposed reasons such as poor air quality or the configuration of
the planets as causes for the spread of disease. In every instance,
in order to understand the origin of a disease theory during a
specific period of history, one must understand that culture's
metaphysical beliefs. In Confronting Contagion, Melvin Santer
traces a history of disease theory all the way from Classical
antiquity to our modern understanding of viruses. Chapters focus on
people and places like the Pre-Socratic Philosophers, Galen and the
emergence of Christianity in Rome, the Black Death in
fourteenth-century Europe, cholera and puerperal sepsis in the
nineteenth century, and other significant periods during which
man's understanding of the cause of disease developed or
transformed. In each, Santer identifies the key thinkers, writers,
and scientists who helped form the working disease theories of the
time. The book features many excerpts from primary sources, from
Thucydides to the writings of twentieth-century virologists,
creating an authentic synthesis of the world's intellectual and
religious attitude toward disease throughout history.
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