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Title: EPIDEMICS AND IDEAS
ESSAYS ON THE HISTORICAL PERCEPTION OF PESTILENCE
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 052140276X
ISBN 13: 9780521402767
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 9 April, 1992
Series: Past and Present Publications
Pages: 356
Description: This volume examines the way in which epidemics have influenced ideas from the ancient world to AIDS today.
Synopsis: From plague to AIDS, epidemics have been the most spectacular diseases to afflict human societies. This volume examines the way in which these great crises have influenced ideas, how they have helped to shape theological, political and social thought, and how they have been interpreted and understood in the intellectual context of their time.
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