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Edition: First Edition
Release: 1997-12-22
Publisher: Yale University Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0300070152
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
Epidemics and History pdf
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A wide ranging study of the great epidemic scourges of humanity - plague, leprosy. smallpox, syphilis, cholera and yellow fever/malaria - over the last six centuries. Sheldon Watts, applies his perspective to the study of global disease, exploring the connections between the movement of epidemics and the manifestations of imperial power in the Americas, Asia, Africa and in European homelands. He shows how the perceptions of whom a disease targeted changed over time and effected various political and medical responses. He argues that not only did western medicine fail to cure the diseases that its own expansion engendered, but that imperial medicine was in fact an agent and tool of empire. Watts examines the relationship between the pre-modern medical profession and such epidemic disasters as the plague in western Europe and the Middle East; leprosy in the medieval west and in the 19th-century tropical world; the spread of smallpox to the new world in the age of exploration; syphilis an Download Epidemics and History for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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