Dread

Dread

Einband:
Kartonierter Einband
EAN:
9781586488093
Untertitel:
How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu
Genre:
Medizin
Autor:
Philip Alcabes
Herausgeber:
Little, Brown and Company
Anzahl Seiten:
336
Erscheinungsdatum:
13.04.2010
ISBN:
978-1-58648-809-3

Informationen zum Autor Philip Alcabes is an Associate Professor of Urban Public Health at Hunter College and Visiting Clinical Associate Professor at the Yale School of Nursing. Klappentext Alcabes persuasively argues that people's anxieties about epidemics are created not so much by the germ or microbe in question--or the actual risks of contagion--but by the unknown, the undesirable, and the misunderstood. b&w illustration insert. Zusammenfassung Takes you on a journey through the history of epidemics that focuses on the less-told story of how societies have responded collectively to them - and what those responses reveal about our fears, beliefs, and the times in question.

Autorentext
Philip Alcabes is an Associate Professor of Urban Public Health at Hunter College and Visiting Clinical Associate Professor at the Yale School of Nursing.

Klappentext
Alcabes persuasively argues that people's anxieties about epidemics are created not so much by the germ or microbe in question--or the actual risks of contagion--but by the unknown, the undesirable, and the misunderstood. b&w illustration insert.


Zusammenfassung
Takes you on a journey through the history of epidemics that focuses on the less-told story of how societies have responded collectively to them - and what those responses reveal about our fears, beliefs, and the times in question.


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