Contagion: Perspectives from Pre-Modern Societies

By Lawrence I. Conrad and Dominik Wujastyk

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Contagion - even today the word conjures up fear of disease and plague and has the power to terrify. The nine essays gathered here examine what pre-modern societies thought about the spread of disease and how it could be controlled: to what extent were concepts familiar to modern epidemiology present? What does the pre-modern terminology tell us about the conceptions of those times? How did medical thought relate to religious and social beliefs?

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0754602583

ISBN13:9780754602583

Release Date:July 2000

Publisher:Routledge

Length:242 Pages

Weight:1.14 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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