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Epidemics and history : disease, power, and imperialism / Sheldon Watts.

By: Material type: Computer filePublication details: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 1999.Description: xvi, 400 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0300080875 (pbk.)
  • 9780300080872 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 614.49
LOC classification:
  • RA 649 W353e 1997
  • RA 649 W353e 1999
Contents:
The human response to plague in Western Europe and the Middle East, 1347 to 1844 -- Dark hidden meanings: leprosy and lepers in the medieval west and in the tropical world under the European imperium -- Smallpox in the New World and in the Old: from holocaust to eradication, 1518 to 1977 -- The secret plague: syphilis in West Europe and East Asia -- Cholera and civilization: Great Britain and India -- Yellow fever, malaria and development: Atlantic Africa and the New World, 1647 to 1928.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Barcode
Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Salud Anillo 2do. Piso RA 649 W353e 1997 | RA 649 W353e 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000046128

Originally published: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [368]-384) and index.

The human response to plague in Western Europe and the Middle East, 1347 to 1844 -- Dark hidden meanings: leprosy and lepers in the medieval west and in the tropical world under the European imperium -- Smallpox in the New World and in the Old: from holocaust to eradication, 1518 to 1977 -- The secret plague: syphilis in West Europe and East Asia -- Cholera and civilization: Great Britain and India -- Yellow fever, malaria and development: Atlantic Africa and the New World, 1647 to 1928.

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