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Title: Epidemics & Society: From the Black Death to the Present
Author: SNOWDEN FRANK M.
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 15/11/2019
Imprint: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Price: $70.00
Publishing status: Active
“A distinctive and very useful contribution to the public understanding of disease.” – Mark Harrison, author of Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease and Director, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
“Essential reading for anyone who is concerned about society’s preparedness to meet new microbial challenges and who appreciates the importance of history to develop effective and efficient responses.” – Socrates Litsios, author of The Tomorrow of Malaria
“A superb synthesis of a complex and important topic. Snowden brings to the subject a wealth of previous research on disease and brilliantly integrates his work into more general historical concerns. A major achievement. – William Bynum, author of A Little History of Science
“Professor Snowden provides an authoritative and very readable historical account of several of the major the major infectious diseases epidemics that have afflicted mankind with a focus on their impact on society.” – Brian Greenwood, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
“In an era of rapidly emerging diseases, Epidemics and Society reminds us that in framing epidemics we are also, always, refiguring human life and fate in relation to ecology and society.” – Warwick Anderson, author of Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines
Series: The Open Yale Courses Series
ISBN: 9780300192216
Pages: 600