Epidemic disease and human understanding : a historical analysis of scientific and other writings /
De Paolo, Charles,1950-
Jefferson, N.C. ; London : McFarland,
c2006.
"The book is primarily concerned with the human experience of epidemic disease and the various ways this experience has been conceptualized and communicated. In surveying human responses to endemic disease, the book draws connections between three sub-genres of epidemiological writing: the encyclopedia, the intellectual history, and the biographical collection"--Provided by publisher.
"The book is primarily concerned with the human experience of epidemic disease and the various ways this experience has been conceptualized and communicated. In surveying human responses to endemic disease, the book draws connections between three sub-genres of epidemiological writing: the encyclopedia, the intellectual history, and the biographical collection"--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-250) and index.
The pre-conceptual modality -- The hands of Dagon: epidemic anomalies in I Samuel 5-6 -- The fierce onslaught of fate: Greco-Roman pre-conceptuality -- The sins of the nation: early Christian pre-conceptuality -- The observational modality -- Set down its nature: eyewitness reporting in the age of Pericles -- The province of human reasoning: eyewitness reporting and the plague of Justinian -- The vast estates: the Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio -- The investigative modality -- Persons of thought: Nathaniel Hodges and the London plague of 1664-1665 -- The topography of inference -- From etiology to synergy -- Modern eyewitness reporting, figurative language, and imaginative writing -- The democracy of affliction: modern eyewitness reporting -- The language of reason: plague extrapolations in modern fiction -- A just and proper tale: figurative language and epidemiological discourse -- A tangible something: the yellow fever construct -- The dynamics of fear and the mechanisms of resistance.
Epidemics
Epidemiology