Epidemics and Ideas
Subtitle: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence (Past and Present Publications)
Contributors: Terence Ranger (Editor); Paul Slack (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 26, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780521558310
Subjects: Public health & preventive medicine; World history; History; Medical / Nursing; History: World; Epidemiology; World - General; Epidemiology - History; History / World
First sentence: In an article on 'Cholera and Society in the Nineteenth Century', published in Past and Present in 1961, Asa Briggs issued a 'call for further research' into the social history of epidemics.