The burdens of disease : epidemics and human response in western history
J. N. Hays (Author)
"In this sweeping approach to the history of disease, historian J.N. Hays chronicles perceptions and responses to plague and pestilence over two thousand years of Western history. Hays frames disease 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. He shows how diseases affect social and political change, reveal social tensions, and are mediated both within and outside the realm of scientific medicine."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 1998
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1998
History
xi, 361 pages ; 25 cm
9780813525273, 9780813525280, 0813525276, 0813525284
37935073
The Western inheritance: Greek and Roman ideas about disease
Medieval diseases and responses
The Great Plague pandemic
New diseases and transatlantic exchanges
Continuity and change: magic, religion, medicine, and science, 500-1700
Disease and the Enlightenment
Cholera and sanitation
Tuberculosis and poverty
Disease, medicine, and Western Imperialism
The scientific view of disease and the triumph of professional medicine
The apparent end of epidemics
Disease and power