Dread : how fear and fantasy have fueled epidemics from the black death to avian flu / Philip Alcabes.

The average individual is far more likely to die in a car accident than from a communicable disease ... yet we are still much more fearful of the epidemic. Even at our most level-headed, the thought of an epidemic can inspire terror. As Alcabes persuasively argues in Dread, our anxieties about epide...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Alcabes, Philip (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : PublicAffairs, ©2009.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Communicable diseases > History. Epidemics > History. Epidemics > Psychological aspects. Epidemics > Social aspects. Nosophobia.