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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Summary: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 victimizing bearers of epidemic diseases.
Physical Description:viii, 643 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 559-608) and index.
ISBN:0198819668 (hbk)
9780198819660 (hbk)