Epidemics and Ideas
Subtitle: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence (Past and Present Publications)
Contributors: Terence Ranger (Editor); Paul Slack (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 29, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780521402767
Subjects: Public health & preventive medicine; World history; Epidemiology; History - General History; History: World; World - General; Epidemiology - History; History / World; History
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.