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More Than Hot : A Short History of Fever /
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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2014.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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 medical scientists to classify it, and with fever's changing social, cultural, and political significance.--From publisher description. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (400 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781421415031 |