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Dread : how fear and fantasy have fueled epidemics from the black death to avian flu /
The average individual is far more likely to die in a car accident than from a communicable disease ... yet we are still much more fearful of the epidemic. Even at our most level-headed, the thought of an epidemic can inspire terror. As Alcabes persuasively argues in Dread, our anxieties about epide...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
PublicAffairs,
©2009.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The average individual is far more likely to die in a car accident than from a communicable disease ... yet we are still much more fearful of the epidemic. Even at our most level-headed, the thought of an epidemic can inspire terror. As Alcabes persuasively argues in Dread, our anxieties about epidemics are created not so much by the germ or microbe in question-or the actual risks of contagion-but by the unknown, the undesirable, and the misunderstood. Alcabes examines epidemics through history to show how they reflect the particular social and cultural anxieties of their times. From Typhoid Mary to bioterrorism, as new outbreaks are unleashed or imagined, new fears surface, new enemies are born, and new behaviors emerge. Dread dissects the fascinating story of the imagined epidemic: the one that we think is happening, or might happen; the one that disguises moral judgments and political agendas, the one that ultimately expresses our deepest fears. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 313 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0786741465 9780786741465 1282562622 9781282562622 9786612562624 6612562625 1586488090 9781586488093 |