Contagion: perspectives from pre-modern societies
Auteur :
Conrad, Lawrence I. / Wujastyk, Dominik
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9780754602583
Date de publication :
28 juil. 2000
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
498 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
The nine essays here examine what pre-modern societies thought about the spread of disease and how it could be controlled. They study the extent to which concepts familiar to modern epidemiology were present and what the pre-modern terminology tells us about the conceptions of those times.