Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues: [2 volumes]
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Multiple-component retail product. From the Athenian flu pandemic and the Black Death to AIDS, this set offers a sociocultural, historical, and medical look at infectious diseases and their place in human history from Neolithic times onwards. Editor(s): Byrne, Joseph P. Num Pages: 920 pages, 65 illustrations. BIC Classification: GB; MBNS; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 64. Weight in Grams: 2132.
Editor Joseph P. Byrne, together with an advisory board of specialists and over 100 scholars, research scientists, and medical practitioners from 13 countries, has produced a uniquely interdisciplinary treatment of the ways in which diseases pestilence, and plagues have affected human life. From the Athenian flu pandemic to the Black Death to AIDS, this extensive two-volume set offers a sociocultural, historical, and medical look at infectious diseases and their place in human history from Neolithic times to the present. Nearly 300 entries cover individual diseases (such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, Ebola, and SARS); major epidemics (such as the ... Read more
Editor Joseph P. Byrne, together with an advisory board of specialists and over 100 scholars, research scientists, and medical practitioners from 13 countries, has produced a uniquely interdisciplinary treatment of the ways in which diseases pestilence, and plagues have affected human life. From the Athenian flu pandemic to the Black Death to AIDS, this extensive two-volume set offers a sociocultural, historical, and medical look at infectious diseases and their place in human history from Neolithic times to the present. Nearly 300 entries cover individual diseases (such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, Ebola, and SARS); major epidemics (such as the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
920
Condition
New
Number of Pages
920
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780313341014
SKU
V9780313341014
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99-5
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Joseph P. Byrne is a cultural and social historian of medieval and early modern Europe and Professor of Honors Humanities at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. He has written several hundred book reviews and short articles on a wide range of historical subjects and has published The Black Death (2004) and Daily Life during the Black Death (2006) with Greenwood ... Read more
Reviews for Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues: [2 volumes]
BOTTOM LINE: A useful resource, especially for those trying to learn about the cultural issues like news reporting on epidemic disease or societal reactions to leprosy, this well-written work would be a good starting point for research. …Recommended for academic libraries as well as high school libraries with decent budgets.
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