Epidemics and History Disease, Power and Imperialism

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  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9780300070156
  • 01 januari 1998
  • 400 pagina's
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This book is a major and wide-ranging study of the great epidemic scourges of humanity-plague, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, cholera, and yellow fever/malaria-over the last six centuries. It will become the standard account of the way diseases arising through chance, through reckless environmental change engineered by man, or through a combination of each were interpreted in Western Europe and in the colonized world. This trenchant book provides a salutary antidote to world health complacency, past and present. -Roy Porter, The Times (London) Watts' . . . mastery of six centuries of Western-influenced infectious disease and sanitation history is impressive. He also writes with authority about the pre-modern and modern medical profession. -Claire Panosian, Los Angeles Times Book Review Watts offers solid, stunning examples of Western idiocy that created superhighways for once-obscure microbes, leading to horrendous epidemics. . . . His is a perspective that Western, particularly Caucasian, policy-makers would do well to comprehend. -Laurie Garrett, Foreign Affairs The convenience of so much history of diseases in one place is obvious. [An] engrossing book. -Gert Brieger, M.D., New England Journal of Medicine An important contribution to our understanding of the history of disease, public health, and imperialism. -Suzanne Austin Alchon, American Historical Review

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01 januari 1998
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400
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Hoofdauteur
Sheldon Watts
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S. J. Watts
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Yale University Press

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25 mm

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