Dread
Subtitle: how fear and fantasy have fueled epidemics from the black death to avian flu
By: Philip Alcabes.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9781586486181
Subjects: Epidemics -- History; Communicable diseases -- History; Epidemics -- Psychological aspects; Epidemics -- Social aspects; Nosophobia; Disease Outbreaks -- history; Fear -- psychology; Anxiety -- psychology; Communicable Disease Control; Communicable Diseases -- history; Health Behavior
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The sense of an epidemic; title: Plague : birth of the model epidemic; title: Cholera, poverty, and the politicized epidemic; title: Germs, science, and the stranger; title: The conquest of contagion; title: Postmodern epidemics; title: Managing the imagined epidemic.