Epidemics: hate and compassion from the plague of athens to aids
Auteur :
Cohn, Jr., Samuel K.
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780198819660
Date de publication :
5 avr. 2018
Dimensions :
24,2 x 16,4 x 4,2 cm
Poids :
1124 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
In this study, Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. investigates thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the 2014 Ebola outbreak to challenge the dominant hypothesis that epidemics invariably provoke hatred, blaming of the 'other', and victimizing bearers of epidemic diseases.