Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Epidemic, ideas and classical Athenian society
- 3 Disease, dragons and saints: the management of epidemics in the Dark Ages
- 4 Epidemic disease in formal and popular thought in early Islamic Society
- 5 Plague and perceptions of the poor in early modern Italy
- 6 Dearth, dirt and fever epidemics: rewriting the history of British ‘public health’, 1780–1850
- 7 Epidemics and revolutions: cholera in nineteenth-century Europe
- 8 Hawaiian depopulation as a model for the Amerindian experience
- 9 Plague panic and epidemic politics in India, 1896–1914
- 10 Plagues of beasts and men; prophetic responses to epidemic in eastern and southern Africa
- 11 Syphilis in colonial East and Central Africa: the social construction of an epidemic
- 12 The early years of AIDS in the United Kingdom 1981–6: historical perspectives
- Index
- Past and Present Publications
Past and Present Publications
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Epidemic, ideas and classical Athenian society
- 3 Disease, dragons and saints: the management of epidemics in the Dark Ages
- 4 Epidemic disease in formal and popular thought in early Islamic Society
- 5 Plague and perceptions of the poor in early modern Italy
- 6 Dearth, dirt and fever epidemics: rewriting the history of British ‘public health’, 1780–1850
- 7 Epidemics and revolutions: cholera in nineteenth-century Europe
- 8 Hawaiian depopulation as a model for the Amerindian experience
- 9 Plague panic and epidemic politics in India, 1896–1914
- 10 Plagues of beasts and men; prophetic responses to epidemic in eastern and southern Africa
- 11 Syphilis in colonial East and Central Africa: the social construction of an epidemic
- 12 The early years of AIDS in the United Kingdom 1981–6: historical perspectives
- Index
- Past and Present Publications
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- Epidemics and IdeasEssays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence, pp. 345 - 347Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992