The burdens of disease : epidemics and human response in western history /
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 a...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
[2009]
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| Edition: | Revised edition. |
| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=311963 |
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.