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The burdens of disease : epidemics and human response in western history /

In this updated edition of The Burdens of Disease, with revisions and additions to the original content, including the evolution of drug-resistant diseases and expanded coverage of HIV/AIDS, along with recent data on mortality figures and other relevant statistics, J.N. Hays chronicles perceptions a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hays, J. N., 1938- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2009]
Edición:Revised edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The western inheritance : Greek and Roman ideas about disease
  • Medieval disease and responses
  • The great plague pandemic
  • New diseases and transatlantic exchanges
  • Continuity and change : magic, religion, medicine, and science, 500-1700
  • Disease and the enlightenment
  • Cholera and sanitation
  • Tuberculosis and poverty
  • Disease, medicine, and western imperialism
  • The scientific view of disease and the triumph of professional medicine
  • The apparent end of epidemics
  • Disease and power.