Epidemics and Ideas : Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence, Paperback / softback Book

Epidemics and Ideas : Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence Paperback / softback

Edited by Terence (University of Oxford) Ranger, Paul (University of Oxford) Slack

Part of the Past and Present Publications series

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From plague to AIDS, epidemics have been the most spectacular diseases to afflict human societies.

This volume examines the way in which these great crises have influenced ideas, how they have helped to shape theological, political and social thought, and how they have been interpreted and understood in the intellectual context of their time.

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