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Epidemic disease and human understanding : a historical analysis of scientific and other writings

For more than three thousand years of recorded history, human beings have been struggling to understand the epidemic - the rapid spread of a contagious disease throughout a human population. This book draws on a list of primary texts to present a comprehensive history of epidemiological thought over the last three millennia.
Print Book, English, 2006
McFarland, Jefferson, NC, 2006
x, 258 Seiten
9780786425068, 0786425067
238783710
"The book is primarily concerned with the human experience of epidemic disease and the various ways this experience has been conceptualized and communicated. In surveying human responses to endemic disease, the book draws connections between three sub-genres of epidemiological writing: the encyclopedia, the intellectual history, and the biographical collection"--Provided by publisher