Descript |
1 online resource (xii, 374 pages) |
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text txt |
Media |
computer c |
Carrier |
online resource cr |
Edition |
Revised edition. |
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. |
Note |
Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU |
ISBN |
9780813548173 (electronic bk.) |
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0813548179 (electronic bk.) |
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9780813546124 |
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0813546125 |
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9780813546131 |
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0813546133 |
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