عنوان

Epidemics and ideas :

(Number (ISBN

052155831X

(Number (ISBN

9780521558310

Number

b528169

Title Proper

Epidemics and ideas :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

essays on the historical perception of pestilence /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Terence Ranger and Paul Slack

Edition Statement

1st pbk. ed

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1995

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

viii, 347 p. ;

Dimensions

22 cm

Series Title

Past and present publications

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

Epidemic, ideas and classical Athenian society / James Longrigg -- Disease, dragons and saints: the management of epidemics in the Dark Ages / Peregrine Horden -- Epidemic disease in formal and popular thought in early Islamic society / Lawrence I. Conrad -- Plague and perceptions of the poor in early modern Italy / Brian Pullan -- Dearth, dirt and fever epidemics: rewriting the history of British 'public health', 1780-1850 / John V. Pickstone -- Epidemics and revolutions: cholera in nineteenth-century Europe / Richard J. Evans -- Hawaiian depopulation as a model for the Amerindian experience / A.W. Crosby -- Plague panic and epidemic politics in India, 1896-1914 / Rajnarayan Chandavarkar -- Plagues of beasts and men: prophetic responses to epidemic in eastern and southern Africa / Terence Ranger -- Syphilis in colonial East and Central Africa: the social construction of an epidemic / Megan Vaughan -- The early years of AIDS in the United Kingdom 1981-6: historical perspectives / Virginia Berridge

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Epidemiology-- History

Ranger, T. O., (Terence O.)

Slack, Paul

Date of Transaction

20120907124331.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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