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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Main Author: Cohn, Samuel K. Jr 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2018
Edition:First edition
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Online Access:BSB01
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Summary: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
Item Description:This edition previously issued in print: 2018. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9780191859984
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198819660.001.0001

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