Epidemic disease and human understanding: a historical analysis of scientific and other writings
"The book is primarily concerned with the human experience of epidemic disease and the various ways this experience has been conceptualized and communicated. In surveying human responses to endemic disease, the book draws connections between three sub-genres of epidemiological writing: the ency...
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| Summary: | "The book is primarily concerned with the human experience of epidemic disease and the various ways this experience has been conceptualized and communicated. In surveying human responses to endemic disease, the book draws connections between three sub-genres of epidemiological writing: the encyclopedia, the intellectual history, and the biographical collection"--Provided by publisher. |
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Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations x
Introduction 1
Part I: The Pre Conceptual Modality
1. The Hands of Dagon: Epidemic Anomalies in I Samuel 5 6 16
2. The Fierce Onslaught of Fate: Greco Roman
Pre Conceptuality 27
3. The Sins of the Nation: Early Christian Pre Conceptuality 38
Part II: The Observational Modality
4. Set Down Its Nature: Eyewitness Reporting in the
Age of Pericles 47
5. The Province of Human Reasoning: Eyewitness
Reporting and the Plague of Justinian 55
6. The Vast Estates: The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio 60
Part III: The Investigative Modality
7. Persons of Thought: Nathaniel Hodges and the London
Plague of 1664 1665 71
8. The Topography of Inference 78
9. From Etiology to Synergy 103
Part IV: Eyewitness Reporting,
Language, and Imaginative Writing
10. The Democracy of Affliction: Modern Eyewitness Reporting 153
viii Contents
11. The Language of Reason: Plague Extrapolations
in Modern Fiction 172
12. A Just and Proper Tale: Figurative Language
and Epidemiological Discourse 198
13. A Tangible Something: The Yellow Fever Construct 221
14. The Dynamics of Fear and the Mechanisms of Resistance 236
Works Cited 241
Index 251
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations x
Introduction 1
Part I: The Pre Conceptual Modality
1. The Hands of Dagon: Epidemic Anomalies in I Samuel 5 6 16
2. The Fierce Onslaught of Fate: Greco Roman
Pre Conceptuality 27
3. The Sins of the Nation: Early Christian Pre Conceptuality 38
Part II: The Observational Modality
4. Set Down Its Nature: Eyewitness Reporting in the
Age of Pericles 47
5. The Province of Human Reasoning: Eyewitness
Reporting and the Plague of Justinian 55
6. The Vast Estates: The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio 60
Part III: The Investigative Modality
7. Persons of Thought: Nathaniel Hodges and the London
Plague of 1664 1665 71
8. The Topography of Inference 78
9. From Etiology to Synergy 103
Part IV: Eyewitness Reporting,
Language, and Imaginative Writing
10. The Democracy of Affliction: Modern Eyewitness Reporting 153
viii Contents
11. The Language of Reason: Plague Extrapolations
in Modern Fiction 172
12. A Just and Proper Tale: Figurative Language
and Epidemiological Discourse 198
13. A Tangible Something: The Yellow Fever Construct 221
14. The Dynamics of Fear and the Mechanisms of Resistance 236
Works Cited 241
Index 251 |
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