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Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence (Past and Present Publications) (edition 1996)

by Terence Ranger (Editor), Paul Slack (Editor)

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From plague to AIDS, epidemics have been the most spectacular diseases to afflict human societies. This volume examines the way in which these great crises have influenced ideas, how they have helped to shape theological, political and social thought, and how they have been interpreted and understood in the intellectual context of their time.… (more)
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Title:Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence (Past and Present Publications)
Authors:Terence Ranger
Other authors:Paul Slack (Editor)
Info:Cambridge University Press (1996), Paperback, 360 pages
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Tags:History, History of Disease

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