Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence - Couverture rigide

 
9780521402767: Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence
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ISBN 10 : 052140276X ISBN 13 : 9780521402767
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1992

Synopsis

This volume examines the way in which epidemics have influenced ideas from the ancient world to AIDS today.

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Revue de presse

'Epidemics and Ideas shows how epidemics evoke a series of recognisable reactions and responses from society beyond the specifics of pathogen, place or time. It is a very modern book, which brings successfully together history, anthropology, sociology and other so-called social sciences with medicine, or at least with public health. It goes far beyond the earlier appreciation of the relationship between human society and diseases ... [and] brings a vast specialised literature about past epidemics and the response of society to them within reach of the general reader'. New Scientist

'... a remarkable cohesive and delightfully variegated book that brings medical and biological history into firm and fruitful contact with intellectual and social history ... This is, in short, a splendid book – subtle, informed, sophisticated and coherent. It shows how successfully the social history of epidemics has come of age in recent years'. The Journal of Social History

Présentation de l'éditeur

From plague to AIDS, epidemics have been the most spectacular diseases to afflict human societies. This volume examines the way in which these great crises have influenced ideas, how they have helped to shape theological, political and social thought, and how they have been interpreted and understood in the intellectual context of their time.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1992
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
052140276X
ISBN 13 
9780521402767
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
356
Éditeur
Ranger Terence, Slack Paul
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780521558310: Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  052155831X ISBN 13 :  9780521558310
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1995
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