Epidemics: Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS

Epidemics: Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS
ISBN-10
0198819668
ISBN-13
9780198819660
Series
Epidemics
Category
History
Pages
656
Language
English
Published
2018-04-05
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Samuel Kline Cohn

Description

In this study, Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. investigates hundreds 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 victimizing bearers of epidemic diseases.

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