The burdens of disease

Description:

In this sweeping approach to the history of disease, historian J. N. Hays chronicles perceptions and responses to plague and pestilence over two thousand years of Western history. Hays frames disease as a multidimensional construct, situated at the intersection of history, politics, culture, and medicine, and rooted in mentalities and social relations as much as in biological conditions of pathology. He shows how diseases affect social and political change, reveal social tensions, and are mediated both within and outside the realm of scientific medicine.

subjects: History,  Epidemics,  Western World,  Disease Outbreaks,  Social aspects,  MEDICAL,  Health Risk Assessment,  Epidemiology,  Epidémies,  Histoire,  Épidémies,  Western world--history,  Disease outbreaks--history,  Epidemics--history,  Western world--history--europe,  Disease outbreaks--europe--history,  Western world--europe--history,  Epidemics--sociological aspects,  Public health--history,  Ra649 .h29 2009,  Wa 11 ga1 h425b 2009,  614.4

Places: Europe,  Americas