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The burdens of disease : epidemics and human response in western history / J.N. Hays.
- Title
- The burdens of disease : epidemics and human response in western history / J.N. Hays.
- Author
- Hays, J. N., 1938-
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- Additional Authors
- Hays, J. N.,
- Description
- xii, 374 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "J. N. Hays chronicles perceptions and responses to plague and pestilence over two thousand years of western history. Disease is framed as a multidimensional 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. This revised edition of The Burdens of Disease also studies the victims of epidemics, paying close attention to the relationships among poverty, power, and disease."--BOOK JACKET.
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- ISBN
- 0813546125 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0813546133 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780813546124 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780813546131 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008051487
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries