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" Epidemics and ideas : "
edited by Terence Ranger and Paul Slack
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BL
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705980
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b528169
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| Title & Author
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Epidemics and ideas : : essays on the historical perception of pestilence /\ edited by Terence Ranger and Paul Slack
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1st pbk. ed
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge [England] ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 1995
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Past and present publications
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viii, 347 p. ;; 22 cm
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052155831X
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: 9780521558310
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Epidemic, ideas and classical Athenian society / James Longrigg -- Disease, dragons and saints: the management of epidemics in the Dark Ages / Peregrine Horden -- Epidemic disease in formal and popular thought in early Islamic society / Lawrence I. Conrad -- Plague and perceptions of the poor in early modern Italy / Brian Pullan -- Dearth, dirt and fever epidemics: rewriting the history of British 'public health', 1780-1850 / John V. Pickstone -- Epidemics and revolutions: cholera in nineteenth-century Europe / Richard J. Evans -- Hawaiian depopulation as a model for the Amerindian experience / A.W. Crosby -- Plague panic and epidemic politics in India, 1896-1914 / Rajnarayan Chandavarkar -- Plagues of beasts and men: prophetic responses to epidemic in eastern and southern Africa / Terence Ranger -- Syphilis in colonial East and Central Africa: the social construction of an epidemic / Megan Vaughan -- The early years of AIDS in the United Kingdom 1981-6: historical perspectives / Virginia Berridge
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Epidemiology-- History
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Ranger, T. O., (Terence O.)
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Slack, Paul
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