Title Epidemics and history : disease, power, and imperialism / Sheldon Watts.

Publication Info.	New Haven : Yale University Press, [1997]
	©1997

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Location	Call No.	Status
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	614.49 W353E	Check Shelf

Description	xvi, 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 368-384) and index.
Contents	The human response to plague in Western Europe and the Middle East, 1347 to 1844 -- Dark hidden meanings: leprosy and lepers in the medieval west and in the tropical world under the European imperium -- Smallpox in the New World and in the old: from holocaust to eradication, 1518-1977 -- The secret plague: syphilis in West Europe and East Asia, 1492-1965 -- Cholera and civilization: Great Britain and India, 1817-1920 -- Yellow fever, malaria and development: Atlantic Africa and the New World, 1647-1928.
Summary	This book will become the standard account of the way disease has transformed societies and of how the structuring of society, politics, the economy and the medical profession has shaped the spread and containment of epidemics.
Subject	Epidemics -- History.
	Social medicine.
	Disease Outbreaks -- history.
	Social Medicine -- history.
	Colección Fin de milenio.
	Epidemias -- Historia.
	Epidemics. (OCoLC)fst00914079
	Social medicine. (OCoLC)fst01122637
	Epidemieën.
	Besmettelijke ziekten.
	Politieke macht.
	Imperialisme.
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	0300070152
	9780300070156
	0300080875 (paperback)
	9780300080872 (paperback)

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