Ranger, Terence O. (Editor)
Slack, Paul (Editor)
Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1992
Physical Details: ix + 346 pp.; notes; index
Description Contents: Slack, Paul: Introduction. Longrigg, James: Epidemic, ideas and classical Atheniann society. Horden, Peregrine: Disease, dragons and saints: The management of epidemics in the Dark Ages. Conrad, Lawrence I.: Epidemic disease in formal and popular thought in early Islamic society. Pullan, Brian: Plague and perceptions of the poor in early modern Italy. Pickstone, John V.: Dearth, dirt and fever epidemics: Rewriting the history of British “public health”, 1780-1850. Evans, Richard J.: Epidemics and revolutions: Cholera in 19th-century Europe. Crosby, A.W.: Hawaiian depopulation as a model for the Amerindian experience. Chandavarkar, Rajnarayan: Plague panic and epidemic politics in India, 1896-1914. Ranger, Terence: Plagues of beasts and men: Prophetic responses to epidemic in eastern and southern Africa. Vaughan, Megan: Syphilis in colonial East and Central Africa: The social construction of an epidemic. Berridge, Virginia: The early years of AIDS in the United Kingdom 1981-6: Historical perspectives.
Review McNeill, W.H. (1993) Review of "Epidemics and ideas: Essays on the historical perception of pestilence". Journal of Social History (pp. 411-13).
Review Davis, A.B. (1993) Review of "Epidemics and ideas: Essays on the historical perception of pestilence". Technology and Culture (pp. 926-28).
Review Weindling, P. (1994) Review of "Epidemics and ideas: Essays on the historical perception of pestilence". History (pp. 118-19).
Review Hildreth, M.L. (1993) Review of "Epidemics and ideas: Essays on the historical perception of pestilence". Social History of Medicine (pp. 441-43).
Review Carmichael, A.G. (1994) Review of "Epidemics and ideas: Essays on the historical perception of pestilence". American Scientist (pp. 394-95).
Review Hudson, R. (1993) Review of "Epidemics and ideas: Essays on the historical perception of pestilence". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 561-62).
Review Sapire, H. (1996) Review of "Epidemics and ideas: Essays on the historical perception of pestilence". Ethnic and Racial Studies (pp. 727-28).
Review Hardy, A. (1995) Review of "Epidemics and ideas: Essays on the historical perception of pestilence". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (pp. 162-67).
Review Packard, R.M. (1995) Review of "Epidemics and ideas: Essays on the historical perception of pestilence". Journal of Interdisciplinary History (pp. 648-50).
Review Galley, C. (1995) Review of "Epidemics and ideas: Essays on the historical perception of pestilence". Continuity and Change (pp. 301-3).
Review Porter, R. (1995) Review of "Epidemics and ideas: Essays on the historical perception of pestilence". English Historical Review (pp. 551-52).
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