Plagues and epidemics : infected spaces past and present

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Plagues and epidemics : infected spaces past and present

Title remainder

infected spaces past and present

Statement of responsibility

edited by D. Ann Herring and Alan C. Swedlund

Title variation

Plagues and Epidemics: Infected Spaces Past and Present (Wenner gren international symposium series)

Contributor

• Herring, Ann, 1951-
• Swedlund, Alan C

Subject

• Plague -- History
• Epidemics -- History
• Famines -- History
• Environmentally induced diseases

Language

eng

Summary

"Until recently, plagues were thought to belong in the ancient past. Now there are deep worries about global pandemics. This book presents views from anthropology about this much publicized and complex problem. The authors take us to places where epidemics are erupting, waning, or gone and to other places where they have not yet arrived, but where a frightening story-line is already in place. They explore public health bureaucracies and political arenas where the power lies to make decisions about what is, and is not, an epidemic. They look back into global history to uncover disease trends and look ahead to a future of expanding plagues within the context of climate change. The chapters are written from a range of perspectives, from the science of modelling epidemics to the social science of understanding them. Patterns emerge when people are engulfed by diseases labeled as epidemics but which have the hallmarks of plague. There are cycles of shame and blame, stigma, isolation of the sick, fear of contagion, and end-of-the-world scenarios. Plague, it would seem, is still among us"--

Member of

• Wenner-Gren Center international symposium series

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

• RA649
• RA649

LC item number

• .N55 2010
• .P634 2010

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Wenner-Gren international symposium series