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Plague, pestilence and pandemic : voices from history / edited by Peter Furtado.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Epidemics--History.
- Epidemics.
- History.
- Communicable diseases--History.
- Communicable diseases.
- Epidemics--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Epidemics--history.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Thames & Hudson, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Plague, pestilence, and pandemics have been a part of the human story from the beginning and have been reflected in art and writing at every turn. Humankind has always struggled with illness; and the experiences of different cities and countries have been compared and connected for thousands of years. Many great authors have published their eyewitness accounts and survivor stories of the great contagions of the past. When the great Muslim traveler Ibn Battuta visited Damascus in 1348 during the great plague, which went on to kill half of the population, he wrote about everything he saw. He reported, "God lightened their affliction; for the number of deaths in a single day at Damascus did not attain 2,000, while in Cairo it reached the figure of 24,000 a day." From the plagues of ancient Egypt recorded in Genesis to those like the Black Death that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages, and from the Spanish flu of 1918 to the Covid-19 pandemic in our own century, this anthology contains fascinating accounts."-- Amazon.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Ancient World
- Athenian Plague
- Antonine Plague
- pt. II The Christian World
- Plague of Justinian
- Leprosy
- The Black Death
- Sweating Sickness
- pt. III Pandemics of the Age of Empire
- Syphilis
- New World Smallpox
- Cocoliztli Epidemic
- The Great Plague
- pt. IV Cities, Science and Public Health
- Cholera
- Yellow Fever
- Typhus and Typhoid Fever
- Third Plague Pandemic
- Smallpox: From Treatment To Eradication
- pt. V The 20th Century
- `Spanish Flu'
- Poliomyelitis
- Asian Flu and Hong Kong Flu
- pt. VI Pandemics in a Globalized World
- AIDS
- Ebola
- Coronavirus.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-323) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780500296134
- 0500296138
- OCLC:
- 1201299217
- Publisher Number:
- 99987711220
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