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Insects, hygiene and history /
Busvine's introductory account of the evolutionary histories of insects and mites leads on to a fascinating study of human reactions to ectoparasites. It shows how the extent of man's curiosity about them and references to their prevalence provide a continuous commentary both on the histor...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2015.
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| Colección: | Bloomsbury academic collections. History. History of medicine.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Busvine's introductory account of the evolutionary histories of insects and mites leads on to a fascinating study of human reactions to ectoparasites. It shows how the extent of man's curiosity about them and references to their prevalence provide a continuous commentary both on the history of biological science from Aristotle to the present day and on the modes and manners of ages past. Subjects of ribald verse, quack medicine and morbid imagination as well as literary symbols of piety, love and human insignificance, this is also the history of how medicine discovered that ectoparasites acted as transmitters for epidemic diseases. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-255) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781474241755 1474241751 |