Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence by Terence O. Ranger

Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence

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Terence O. Ranger

360 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction historical informative reflective slow-paced
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Epidemic diseases have always been a test of the ability of human societies to withstand sudden shocks. How are such large mortalities and the illness of large proportions of the population to be explained and dealt with? How have the sources of d...

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