In time of plague : the history and social consequences of lethal epidemic disease

Title:

In time of plague : the history and social consequences of lethal epidemic disease / edited by Arien Mack.

Format:

Book

Published:

New York : New York University Press, c1991.

Language:

English

Description:

xii, 206 p. ; 24 cm.

Other contributors:

Mack, Arien.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

• The definition and control of disease : an introduction / Charles E. Rosenberg
• Plagues : perceptions of risk and social responses / William H. Foege
• Pandemic as a natural evolutionary phenomenon / Joshua Lederberg
• Placing blame for devastating disease / Dorothy Nelkin and Sander L. Gilman
• Science and health : possibilities, probabilities, and limitations / Lewis Thomas
• Case histories : an introduction / Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz
• Hepatitis B virus and the carrier problem / Baruch S. Blumberg
• AIDS and metaphor : toward the social meaning of epidemic disease / Allan M. Brandt
• Responses to plague in early modern Europe : the implications of public health / Paul Slack
• Moral dilemmas : an introduction / George Kateb.

• AIDS and traditions of homophobia / Richard Poirier
• Plagues and morality / Anthony Quinton
• Human rights, public health, and the idea of moral plague / David A.J. Richards.

Subject headings:

Epidemics--History. Epidemiology--Social aspects. AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects.

ISBN:

0814754678 (acid-free paper) :