Epidemics : hate and compassion from the plague of Athens to AIDS / Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.
In this study, Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. investigates hundreds of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the 2014 Ebola outbreak to challenge the dominant hypothesis that epidemics invariably provoke hatred, blaming of the 'other', and victimizin...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Norlin Library - Science Stacks
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RA649 .C64 2018
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| RA649 .C64 2018 | Available Place a Hold |