Epidemics: hate and compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS

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 victimising bearers of e...

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1. Verfasser: Cohn, Samuel K. Jr 1949- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford University Press 2018
Ausgabe:First edition
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Zusammenfassung: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 victimising bearers of epidemic diseases
Beschreibung:This edition previously issued in print: 2018. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9780191859984
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198819660.001.0001

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