Epidemics : hate and compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS

In this study, 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 victimizi...

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1. Verfasser:	!081502249!Cohn, Samuel *1949-* ; ID: gnd/121737772 (VerfasserIn)
Format:	E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2018
Ausgabe:	First edition
Schlagworte:	Epidemics Epidemics-History Epidemics-Social aspects Electronic books
Umfang:	1 online resource (656 pages)