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Dread : how fear and fantasy have fueled epidemics from the Black Death to avian flu
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Dread : how fear and fantasy have fueled epidemics from the Black Death to avian flu

Author: Philip Alcabes
Publisher: New York : PublicAffairs, ©2009.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Philip Alcabes
ISBN: 9781586486181 1586486187
OCLC Number: 297494709
Description: vii, 313 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The sense of an epidemic -- Plague : birth of the model epidemic -- Cholera, poverty, and the politicized epidemic -- Germs, science, and the stranger -- The conquest of contagion -- Postmodern epidemics -- Managing the imagined epidemic.
Responsibility: Philip Alcabes.
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