More Than Hot : A Short History of Fever /

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This work engages a common experience--fever--in all its varieties and meanings. Reviewing the representations of that condition from ancient times to the present, More Than Hot is a history of the world through the lens of fever. The book deals with the expression of fever, with the efforts of medi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hamlin, Christopher, 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Public health.
Fever.
Epidemics.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
Sante publique > Histoire.
Fievre.
Fever
Fever > history
Public health > History.
Epidemics > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. More than hot
  • Part I. The fevers of classical medicines
  • Ch. 2. Words
  • Ch. 3. Books
  • Part II. Fever as social
  • Ch. 4. Communities
  • Ch. 5. Selves
  • Part III. Fever becomes modern
  • Ch. 6. Facts
  • Ch. 7. Naming the wild
  • Ch. 8. Numbers and nurses
  • Part IV. Fever, modern and post-modern
  • Ch. 9. Machines, mothers, sex, and zombies.

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