The burdens of disease : epidemics and human response in western history / J.N. Hays.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-356) and index.

The western inheritance : Greek and Roman ideas about disease -- Medieval disease and responses -- The great plague pandemic -- New diseases and transatlantic exchanges -- Continuity and change : magic, religion, medicine, and science, 500-1700 -- Disease and the enlightenment -- Cholera and sanitation -- Tuberculosis and poverty -- Disease, medicine, and western imperialism -- The scientific view of disease and the triumph of professional medicine -- The apparent end of epidemics -- Disease and power.

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In this updated edition of The Burdens of Disease, with revisions and additions to the original content, including the evolution of drug-resistant diseases and expanded coverage of HIV/AIDS, along with recent data on mortality figures and other relevant statistics, J.N. Hays chronicles perceptions and responses to plague and pestilence over two thousand years of western history. Disease is framed as a multidimensional construct, situated at the intersection of history, politics, culture, and medicine, and rooted in mentalities and social relations as much as in biological conditions of p.

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