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Patterns of plague : changing ideas about plague in England and France, 1348-1750 /

"For centuries, recurrent plague outbreaks took a grim toll on populations across Europe and Asia. While medical interventions and treatments did not change significantly from the fourteenth century to the eighteenth century, understandings of where and how plague originated did. Through an inn...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Jones, Lori (Medical historian) (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022.
Collection:McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 59.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Creating the plague tract
  • Producing the plague tract : from author to stationer, from manuscript to print
  • Setting plague in time : from never before to now, from the past to the present
  • Seeing plague in space : from elsewhere to everywhere, from here to there
  • Imagining the oriental plague : from us to them, from fearsome disease to Turkish threat.