The burdens of disease
Subtitle: epidemics and human response in western history
By: J.N. Hays.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780813546124; 9780813546131
Subjects: Epidemics -- History; Disease Outbreaks -- history -- Americas; Disease Outbreaks -- history -- Europe; Western World -- history -- Americas; Western World -- history -- Europe
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The western inheritance : Greek and Roman ideas about disease; title: Medieval disease and responses; title: The great plague pandemic; title: New diseases and transatlantic exchanges; title: Continuity and change : magic, religion, medicine, and science, 500-1700; title: Disease and the enlightenment; title: Cholera and sanitation; title: Tuberculosis and poverty; title: Disease, medicine, and western imperialism; title: The scientific view of disease and the triumph of professional medicine; title: The apparent end of epidemics; title: Disease and power.