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Epidemics and Ideas - Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence (Paperback, New Ed) Loot Price: R1,323
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Epidemics and Ideas - Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence (Paperback, New Ed): Terence Ranger, Paul Slack

Epidemics and Ideas - Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence (Paperback, New Ed)

Terence Ranger, Paul Slack

Series: Past and Present Publications

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Epidemic diseases have always been a test of the ability of human societies to withstand sudden shocks. How are such large mortalities and the illness of large proportions of the population to be explained and dealt with? How have the sources of disease been identified and controls imposed? The chapters in this book, by acknowledged experts in the history of their periods, look at the ways in which the great epidemic diseases of the past--from classical Athens to the present day--have shaped not only our views of medicine and disease, but the ways in which people have defined the "health" of society in general terms.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Past and Present Publications
Release date: November 1995
First published: 1992
Editors: Terence Ranger • Paul Slack
Dimensions: 213 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 360
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-55831-0
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > General
Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General
Books > History > World history > General
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LSN: 0-521-55831-X
Barcode: 9780521558310

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