Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence

ISBN: 9780521558310 出版年：1992 页码：360 Terence Ranger Paul Slack Cambridge University Press

1. Introduction Paul Slack 2. Epidemic, ideas and classical Athenian society James Longrigg 3. Disease, dragons and saints: the management of epidemics in the Dark Ages Peregrine Horden 4. Epidemic disease in formal and popular thought in early Islamic Society Lawrence I. Conrad 5. Plague and perceptions of the poor in early modern Italy Brian Pullan 6. Dearth, dirt and fever epidemics: rewriting the history of British 'public health', 1780-1850 John V. Pickstone 7. Epidemics and revolutions: cholera in nineteenth-century Europe Richard J. Evans 8. Hawaiian depopulation as a model for the Amerindian experience A. W. Crosby 9. Plague panic and epidemic politics in India, 1896-1914 Rajnarayan Chandavarkar 10. Plagues of beasts and men prophetic responses to epidemic in eastern and southern Africa Terence Ranger 11. Syphilis in colonial East and Central Africa: the social construction of an epidemic Megan Vaughan 12. The early years of AIDS in the United Kingdom 1981-6: historical perspectives Virginia Berridge Index.