The burdens of disease : epidemics and human response in western history

Author:

Hays, J. N., 1938-

Title:

The burdens of disease : epidemics and human response in western history / J.N. Hays.

Format:

Book

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Published:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2009.

Language:

English

Description:

xii, 374 p. ; 24 cm.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• The western inheritance : Greek and Roman ideas about disease
• Medieval disease 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.

Subject headings:

Epidemics--History.

ISBN:

9780813546124 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0813546125 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780813546131 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0813546133 (pbk. : alk. paper)