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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Main Author: Cohn, Samuel Kline, Jr (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
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Call Number: RA649 .C64 2018
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