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This book is a major and wide-ranging study of the great epidemic scourges of humanity-plague, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, cholera, and yellow fever/malaria-over the last six centuries. It will become the standard account of the way diseases arising through chance, through reckless environmental change engineered by man, or through a combination of each were interpreted in Western Europe and in the colonized world. "This trenchant book provides a salutary antidote to world health complacency, past and present."-Roy Porter, The Times (London) "Watts' ...mastery of six centuries of Western-influenced infectious disease and sanitation history is impressive. He also writes with authority about the pre-modern and modern medical profession."-Claire Panosian, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Watts offers solid, stunning examples of Western idiocy that created superhighways for once-obscure microbes, leading to horrendous epidemics...His is a perspective that Western, particularly Caucasian, policy-makers would do well to comprehend."-Laurie Garrett, Foreign Affairs "The convenience of so much history of diseases in one place is obvious. [An] engrossing book."-Gert Brieger, M.D., New England Journal of Medicine "An important contribution to our understanding of the history of disease, public health, and imperialism."-Suzanne Austin Alchon, American Historical Review

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Humanities History History: specific events & topics

• Plný název: Epidemics and History
• Autor: Sheldon J. Watts
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 416
• EAN: 9780300080872
• ISBN: 0300080875
• ID: 04573184
• Nakladatelství: Yale University Press
• Hmotnost: 581 g
• Rozměry: 235 × 156 × 32 mm
• Datum vydání: 10. November 1999

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