Dread - How Fear Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics From Black Death to Avian Flu

Informationen zum Autor Philip Alcabes is an Associate Professor of Urban Public Health at Hunter College and Visiting Clinical Associate Professor at the Yale School of Nursing. Klappentext Alcabes persuasively argues that people's anxieties about epidemics are created not so much by the germ or microbe in question--or the actual risks of contagion--but by the unknown, the undesirable, and the misunderstood. b&w illustration insert. Zusammenfassung Deaths from epidemic disease are rare in the developed world, yet in our technically and medically advanced society, an ever-present risk of disease has created an industry out of fear. As Philip Alcabes persuasively argues in Dread , our anxieties about epidemics often stray from the facts on the ground. In a fascinating exploration of the social and cultural history of epidemics, Alcabes delivers a different narrative of disease-one that requires that we reexamine our choice of enemies, and carefully consider the potential motivation of epidemic alarm-bells to further medical, moral, or political campaigns.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Alcabes
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.04.2010
• EAN: 9781586488093
• ISBN: 978-1-58648-809-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, MEDICAL / Epidemiology