In time of plague : the history and social consequences of lethal epidemic disease /

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Other Authors: Mack, Arien
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [1991]
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Table of Contents:
  • The definition and control of disease : an introduction / Charles E. Rosenberg
  • Plagues : perceptions of risk and social responses / William H. Foege
  • Pandemic as a natural evolutionary phenomenon / Joshua Lederberg
  • Placing blame for devastating disease / Dorothy Nelkin and Sander L. Gilman
  • Science and health : possibilities, probabilities, and limitations / Lewis Thomas
  • Case histories : an introduction / Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz
  • Hepatitis B virus and the carrier problem / Baruch S. Blumberg
  • AIDS and metaphor : toward the social meaning of epidemic disease / Allan M. Brandt
  • Responses to plague in early modern Europe : the implications of public health / Paul Slack
  • Moral dilemmas : an introduction / George Kateb
  • AIDS and traditions of homophobia / Richard Poirier
  • Plagues and morality / Anthony Quinton
  • Human rights, public health, and the idea of moral plague / David A.J. Richards