Epidemics : hate and compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS / Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.
2018
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Title
Epidemics : hate and compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS / Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.
Author
Cohn, Samuel Kline, author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191859984 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations, maps.
Call Number
RA649
Dewey Decimal Classification
614.49
Summary
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.
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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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 19, 2018).
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Print version: 9780198819660
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