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Epidemics and Ideas
Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence
This volume examines the way in which epidemics have influenced ideas from the ancient world to AIDS today.
Terence Ranger (Edited by), Paul Slack (Edited by)
9780521558310, Cambridge University Press
Paperback, published 30 November 1995
360 pages
21.3 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.46 kg
'… a remarkable cohesive and delightfully variegated book that brings medical and biological history into firm and fruitful contact with intellectual and social history … This is, in short, a splendid book – subtle, informed, sophisticated and coherent. It shows how successfully the social history of epidemics has come of age in recent years'. The Journal of Social History
From plague to AIDS, epidemics have been the most spectacular diseases to afflict human societies. This volume examines the way in which these great crises have influenced ideas, how they have helped to shape theological, political and social thought, and how they have been interpreted and understood in the intellectual context of their time.
1. Introduction Paul Slack
2. Epidemic, ideas and classical Athenian society James Longrigg
3. Disease, dragons and saints: the management of epidemics in the Dark Ages Peregrine Horden
4. Epidemic disease in formal and popular thought in early Islamic Society Lawrence I. Conrad
5. Plague and perceptions of the poor in early modern Italy Brian Pullan
6. Dearth, dirt and fever epidemics: rewriting the history of British 'public health', 1780–1850 John V. Pickstone
7. Epidemics and revolutions: cholera in nineteenth-century Europe Richard J. Evans
8. Hawaiian depopulation as a model for the Amerindian experience A. W. Crosby
9. Plague panic and epidemic politics in India, 1896–1914 Rajnarayan Chandavarkar
10. Plagues of beasts and men
prophetic responses to epidemic in eastern and southern Africa Terence Ranger
11. Syphilis in colonial East and Central Africa: the social construction of an epidemic Megan Vaughan
12. The early years of AIDS in the United Kingdom 1981–6: historical perspectives Virginia Berridge
Index.
Subject Areas: General & world history [HBG]