Disease and the Modern World
Mark. Harrison
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Hoboken : : Wiley, , 2013.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (523 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; THEMES IN HISTORY SERIES; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Disease and Medicine before 1500; Disease in the Western medical tradition; Medical practice and medical institutions; The world the plague made; 2 Early Modern Europe; The 'Great Pox': syphilis; Plague; Medicine and the 'new science'; 3 Disease and Social Order: The Enlightenment and its Legacy; Disease prevention: public and private spheres; War, disease and medicine; The retreat of plague; 4 The World beyond Europe; New World peoples, Old World diseases; The slave trade and the Atlantic exchange. - Disease among Europeans5 Disease in an Age of Commerce and Industry; Smallpox and the vaccination controversies; Quarantine, commerce and political economy; Cholera and the tensions of modernization: the epidemics of 1830-1832; Urban disease and sanitary reform; 6 The Individual and the State; Disease and scientific medicine; From consumption to tuberculosis; The third plague pandemic: an imperial crisis; Tropical diseases; Microbes and migrants; Mortality decline; 7 Disease, War and Modernity; Health and medicine in an age of total war; The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919; Typhus; Malaria. - Sexually transmitted diseases8 Health for All? Affluence, Poverty and Disease since 1945; Disease in affluent societies; Disease, poverty and environment in the developing world; Epilogue; Glossary; Select Bibliography; Index. - In this lively and accessible book, Mark Harrison charts the history of disease from the birth of the modern world around 1500 through to the present day.
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| ISBN | 0745628109. - 9780745628097. - 9780745628103
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