More than hot
Subtitle: a short history of fever
By: Christopher Hamlin
Series: Johns Hopkins biographies of disease; Johns Hopkins biographies of disease
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9781421415024
Subjects: Epidemics; Public health; Fever; History
Description: This work engages a common experience--fever--in all its varieties and meanings. Reviewing the representations of that condition from ancient times to the present, More Than Hot is a history of the world through the lens of fever. The book deals with the expression of fever, with the efforts of medical scientists to classify it, and with fever's changing social, cultural, and political significance.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: More than hot; title: pt. 1. The fevers of classical medicines. Words; title: Books; title: pt. 2. Fever as social. Communities; title: Selves; title: pt. 3. Fever becomes modern. Facts; title: Naming the wild; title: Numbers and nurses; title: pt. 4. Fever, modern and post-modern. Machines, mothers, sex, and zombies.