| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
The burdens of disease/ J.N. Hays. |
| Reminder of title: |
epidemics and human response in western history / |
| Author: |
Hays, J. N., |
| Published: |
New Brunswick, N.J. :Rutgers University Press, : c1998., |
| Description: |
xi, 361 p. ;25 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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. |
| Subject: |
Epidemics - History. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1827An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0585026637 (electronic bk.) |