Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History
by Peter Furtado
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"Plague, pestilence, and pandemics have been a part of the human story from the beginning and have been reflected in art and writing at every turn. Humankind has always struggled with illness; and the experiences of different cities and countries have been compared and connected for thousands of years. Many great authors have published their eyewitness accounts and survivor stories of the great contagions of the past. When the great Muslim traveler Ibn Battuta visited Damascus in 1348 during show more the great plague, which went on to kill half of the population, he wrote about everything he saw. He reported, "God lightened their affliction; for the number of deaths in a single day at Damascus did not attain 2,000, while in Cairo it reached the figure of 24,000 a day." From the plagues of ancient Egypt recorded in Genesis to those like the Black Death that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages, and from the Spanish flu of 1918 to the Covid-19 pandemic in our own century, this anthology contains fascinating accounts."-- show lessTags
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Peter Furtado edited the monthly magazine History Today from 1998 to 2008, and in 2009 Oxford Brookes University awarded him an honorary doctorate. He is author of 1001 Days that Changed the World and The Histories of Nations, and also wrote Restoration England for Shire.
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- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
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- 614.49 — Applied science & technology Medicine & health Epidemics, Poisons, Alternative Medicine Incidence of and public measures to prevent disease History of epidemics
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- RA649 .P58 — Medicine Public aspects of medicine Public aspects of medicine Public health. Hygiene. Preventive medicine Epidemics. Epidemiology. Quarantine. Disinfection
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