The burdens of disease : epidemics and human response in western history / J.N. Hays.
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Rutgers University Press,
©1998.
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Table of Contents:
- The Western inheritance: Greek and Roman ideas about disease
- Medieval diseases and responses
- The Great Plague pandemic
- New diseases and transatlantic exchanges
- Continuity and change: magic, religion, medicine, and science, 500-1700
- Disease and the Enlightenment
- Cholera and sanitation
- Tuberculosis and poverty
- Disease, medicine, and Western Imperialism
- The scientific view of disease and the triumph of professional medicine
- The apparent end of epidemics
- Disease and power.