MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2009000248
003 DLC
005 20090814144351.0
008 090106s2009 nyuaf b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009000248
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020 $a9781586486181 (alk. paper)
020 $a1586486187 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)297494709$z(OCoLC)246894880
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050 00 $aRA649$b.A43 2009
082 00 $a614.4$222
100 1 $aAlcabes, Philip.
245 10 $aDread :$bhow fear and fantasy have fueled epidemics from the Black Death to avian flu /$cPhilip Alcabes.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPublicAffairs,$cc2009.
300 $avii, 313 p., [8] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 289-296) and index.
505 0 $aThe sense of an epidemic -- Plague : birth of the model epidemic -- Cholera, poverty, and the politicized epidemic -- Germs, science, and the stranger -- The conquest of contagion -- Postmodern epidemics -- Managing the imagined epidemic.
650 0 $aEpidemics$xHistory.
650 0 $aCommunicable diseases$xHistory.
650 0 $aEpidemics$xPsychological aspects.
650 0 $aEpidemics$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aNosophobia.
650 12 $aDisease Outbreaks$xhistory.
650 12 $aFear$xpsychology.
650 22 $aAnxiety$xpsychology.
650 22 $aCommunicable Disease Control.
650 22 $aCommunicable Diseases$xhistory.
650 22 $aHealth Behavior.