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An edition of The burdens of disease (1998)

The burdens of disease

epidemics and human response in western history

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In this sweeping approach to the history of disease, historian J. N. Hays chronicles perceptions and responses to plague and pestilence over two thousand years of Western history. Hays frames disease as a multidimensional construct, situated at the intersection of history, politics, culture, and medicine, and rooted in mentalities and social relations as much as in biological conditions of pathology.

He shows how diseases affect social and political change, reveal social tensions, and are mediated both within and outside the realm of scientific medicine.

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Rutgers University Press
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English
Pages
390

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Subjects
History, Epidemics, Western World, Disease Outbreaks, Social aspects, MEDICAL, Health Risk Assessment, Epidemiology, Epidémies, Histoire, Épidémies, Western world--history, Disease outbreaks--history, Epidemics--history, Western world--history--europe, Disease outbreaks--europe--history, Western world--europe--history, Epidemics--sociological aspects, Public health--history, Ra649 .h29 2009, Wa 11 ga1 h425b 2009, 614.4
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Europe, Americas

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The burdens of disease: epidemics and human response in western history
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1998, Rutgers University Press
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Table of Contents

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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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614.4
Library of Congress
RA649 .H29 2009, RA649.H29 2009

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p. ;
Number of pages
390

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OL22696356M
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9780813546124, 9780813546131
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2008051487
OCLC/WorldCat
276668858
Library Thing
1206312

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