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Cohn, Samuel Kline,

Epidemics : hate and compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS / Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. - First edition. - 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. investigates thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the 2014 Ebola outbreak to challenge the dominant hypothesis that epidemics invariably provoke hatred, blaming of the 'other', and victimising bearers of epidemic diseases.

Specialized.

ISBN: 9780191859984 (ebook) : No price

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Epidemics--History.

LC Class. No.: RA649

Dewey Class. No.: 614.49