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The Burdens of Disease - J. N. Hays

The Burdens of Disease

Epidemics and Human Response in Western History

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Buch | Softcover
390 Seiten
2009 | Revised and Expanded
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-4613-1 (ISBN)
CHF 64,15 inkl. MwSt
Covers the evolution of drug-resistant diseases and HIV/AIDS, along with data on mortality figures and other relevant statistics. This book chronicles perceptions and responses to plague and pestilence over two thousand years of western history.
A review of the original edition of The Burdens of Disease that appeared in ISIS stated, "Hays has written a remarkable book. He too has a message: That epidemics are primarily dependent on poverty and that the West has consistently refused to accept this." This revised edition confirms the book's timely value and provides a sweeping approach to the history of disease.In this updated volume, with revisions and additions to the original content, including the evolution of drug-resistant diseases and expanded coverage of HIV/AIDS, along with recent data on mortality figures and other relevant statistics, 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.

J. N. HAYS is a professor emeritus of history at Loyola University of Chicago.

List of Tables ix
Acknowledgments xi


Introduction 1
One: The Western Inheritance: Greek and Roman Ideas about Disease 9
Two: Medieval Diseases and Responses 19
Three: The Great Plague Pandemic 37
Four: New Diseases and Transatlantic Exchanges 62
Five: Continuity and Change: Magic, Religion, Medicine, and Science, 500–1700 77
Six: Disease and the Enlightenment 105
Seven: Cholera and Sanitation 135
Eight: Tuberculosis and Poverty 155
Nine: Disease, Medicine, and Western Imperialism 179
Ten: The Scientific View of Disease and the Triumph of Professional Medicine 214
Eleven: The Apparent End of Epidemics 243
Twelve: Disease and Power 283

Notes 315
Suggestions for Further Reading 341
Index 357
 

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.10.2009
Zusatzinfo 10 illustrations. 10 tables
Verlagsort New Brunswick NJ
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Gewicht 540 g
Themenwelt Studium Querschnittsbereiche Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
Naturwissenschaften
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-8135-4613-3 / 0813546133
ISBN-13 978-0-8135-4613-1 / 9780813546131
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