The Burdens of Disease: Epidemics and Human Response in Western History

by J.N. Hays and J. Daniel Hays

Book Overview

In this sweeping approach to the history of disease, historian J. N. Hays chronicles perceptions and responses to plague and pestilence over two thousand years of western history. Hays frames disease as a multi-dimensional construct, situated at the intersection of history, politics, culture, and medicine, and rooted in mentalities and social relations as much as in biological conditions of pathology. He shows how diseases affect social and political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813525284
• ISBN13: 9780813525280
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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