TY - GEN N2 - Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. investigates thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the 2014 Ebola outbreak to challenge the dominant hypothesis that epidemics invariably provoke hatred, blaming of the 'other', and victimising bearers of epidemic diseases. AB - Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. investigates thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the 2014 Ebola outbreak to challenge the dominant hypothesis that epidemics invariably provoke hatred, blaming of the 'other', and victimising bearers of epidemic diseases. T1 - Epidemics :hate and compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS / AU - Cohn, Samuel Kline, ET - First edition. CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - RA649 ID - 822793 KW - Epidemics SN - 9780191859984 TI - Epidemics :hate and compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198819660.001.0001 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198819660.001.0001 ER -