Plague's Progress

A Social History of Man and Disease

Arno Karlen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2001 | New edition
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) (Verlag)
978-0-7538-1443-7 (ISBN)

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The Black Death, the Great Plague, leprosy, smallpox: the very names have a historical - almost a mythological - ring. With our space-age hospitals and wonder drugs, surely we've consigned pestilence to the past. The author questions this complacent conspiracy, tracing the continuities of contagion from ancient times.

The Black Death, the Great Plague, leprosy, smallpox: the very names now have a historical - almost a mythological - ring. With our space-age hospitals and wonder drugs, surely we've consigned pestilence to the past! Even AIDS hasn't succeeded in persuading us otherwise...In this shocking, scintillating book, biohistorian Arno Karlen questions this complacent conspiracy, tracing the continuities of contagion from ancient times to the present day. An epic of epidemic, the story is, he says, anything but over: indeed we may well be standing on the brink of disaster.

Arno Karlen's essays on history, medicine and behavioural science have appeared in many scholarly journals and popular magazines. He is the author of several books, and lives in New York City.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.9.2001
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	256 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-7538-1443-9 / 0753814439
ISBN-13	978-0-7538-1443-7 / 9780753814437
Zustand	Neuware