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EPIDEMICS AND HISTORY
DISEASE, POWER AND IMPERIALISM |
| By: |
Sheldon J. Watts |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0300080875 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780300080872 |
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| Publisher: |
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
16 September, 1999 |
| Pages: |
416 |
| Description: |
A study of the great epidemic scourges of humanity over the last six centuries. It examines the connections between the movement of epidemics and the manifestations of imperial power in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Europe, showing how perceptions of whom a disease targeted changed over time. |
| Synopsis: |
This book is a major and wide-ranging study of the great epidemic scourges of humanity-plague, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, cholera, and yellow fever/malaria-over the last six centuries. It will become the standard account of the way diseases arising through chance, through reckless environmental change engineered by man, or through a combination of each were interpreted in Western Europe and in the colonized world."This trenchant book provides a salutary antidote to world health complacency, past and present."-Roy Porter, The Times (London)"Watts' . . . mastery of six centuries of Western-influenced infectious disease and sanitation history is impressive. He also writes with authority about the pre-modern and modern medical profession."-Claire Panosian, Los Angeles Times Book Review"Watts offers solid, stunning examples of Western idiocy that created superhighways for once-obscure microbes, leading to horrendous epidemics. . . . His is a perspective that Western, particularly Caucasian, policy-makers would do well to comprehend."-Laurie Garrett, Foreign Affairs"The convenience of so much history of diseases in one place is obvious. [An] engrossing book."-Gert Brieger, M.D., New England Journal of Medicine"An important contribution to our understanding of the history of disease, public health, and imperialism."-Suzanne Austin Alchon, American Historical Review |
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42 b-w illus. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Yale University Press |
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