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| #1882912 in Books | Cambridge University Press | 1996-01-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.79 x5.43l,1.05 | File Name: 052155831X | 360 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| good collection of works|By jane the reader|very good collection of disease histories. i like the inclusion of the middle east in this edited volume.|20 of 22 people found the following review helpful.| Scary diseases, dense read|By Mary Jo Powell|Ranger and Slack's book has a lot of interesting material, but most people will||"The high scholarly quality of the essays is sustained throughout the book...This book will be of interest not only to the medical profession, but to sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and statesmen." The New England Journal of Medicine
Epidemic diseases have always been a test of the ability of human societies to withstand sudden shocks. How are such large mortalities and the illness of large proportions of the population to be explained and dealt with? How have the sources of disease been identified and controls imposed? The chapters in this book, by acknowledged experts in the history of their periods, look at the ways in which the great epidemic diseases of the past--from classical Athens to the pr...
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