TY  - GEN
T1  - The burdens of disease : epidemics and human response in western history
A1  - Hays, J. N., 1938-
LA  - English
PP  - New Brunswick, N.J.
PB  - Rutgers University Press
YR  - 2009
ED  - Revised edition.
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn593295656
AB  - In this updated edition of The Burdens of Disease, with revisions and additions to the original content, including the evolution of drug-resistant diseases and expanded coverage of HIV/AIDS, along with recent data on mortality figures and other relevant statistics, J.N. Hays chronicles perceptions and responses to plague and pestilence over two thousand years of western history. Disease is framed 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 p.
OP  - 374
CN  - RA649 .H29 2009eb
SN  - 9780813548173
SN  - 0813548179
SN  - 9780813546124
SN  - 0813546125
SN  - 9780813546131
SN  - 0813546133
KW  - Epidemics : History.
KW  - America.
KW  - Europe.
KW  - Disease Outbreaks : history
KW  - Western World : history
KW  - Americas
KW  - Europe
KW  - Amérique.
KW  - Épidémies : Histoire.
KW  - MEDICAL : Health Risk Assessment.
KW  - MEDICAL : Epidemiology.
KW  - HISTORY : General.
KW  - Epidemics
KW  - America
KW  - History
ER  -