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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Alcabes, Philip (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : PublicAffairs, ©2009.
Édition:First edition.
Sujets:
Communicable diseases > History.
Epidemics > History.
Epidemics > Psychological aspects.
Epidemics > Social aspects.
Nosophobia.
Health behavior.
Disease Outbreaks > history
Fear > psychology
Anxiety > psychology
Communicable Disease Control
Communicable Diseases > history
Health Behavior
Maladies infectieuses > Histoire.
Nosophobie.
Habitudes sanitaires.
Épidémies > Histoire.
Épidémies > Aspect psychologique.
Épidémies > Aspect social.
Health behavior
Epidemics > Psychological aspects
Communicable diseases
Epidemics
Epidemics > Social aspects
Nosophobia
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The sense of an epidemic
  • Plague : birth of the model epidemic
  • Cholera, poverty, and the politicized epidemic
  • Germs, science, and the stranger
  • The conquest of contagion
  • Postmodern epidemics
  • Managing the imagined epidemic.

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