Contagion : perspectives from pre-modern societies / edited by Lawrence I. Conrad and Dominik Wujastyk.

"Contagion - even today the word conjures up fear of disease and plague and has the power to terrify. The nine essays gathered here examine what pre-modern societies thought about the spread of disease and how it could be controlled: to what extent were concepts familiar to modern epidemiology...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors:	Conrad, Lawrence I., 1949-, Wujastyk, D.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2017.
Subjects:	Communicable diseases > History. Medicine, Ancient. Medicine, Medieval. Communicable diseases. History.