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Contagion : Perspectives from Pre-Modern Societies
Overview
Contagion - even today the word conjures up fear of disease and plague and has the power to terrify. The nine essays gathered here examine what pre-modern societies thought about the spread of disease and how it could be controlled: to what extent were concepts familiar to modern epidemiology present? What does the pre-modern terminology tell us about the conceptions of those times? How did medical thought relate to religious and social beliefs?
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- ISBN-13: 9780754602583
- ISBN-10: 0754602583
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: July 2000
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.14 pounds
- Page Count: 242
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