Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu by Alcabes, Philip

Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781586488093)

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Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu by Alcabes, Philip

Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu

$21.99
Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu by Alcabes, Philip

Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu

$21.99
Format: Paperback
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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.



Author: Philip Alcabes
ISBN-10: 1586488090
ISBN-13: 9781586488093
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Language: English
Published: 04/13/2010
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.90d
By Philip Alcabes
By Philip Alcabes
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Philip Alcabes is an Associate Professor of Urban Public Health at Hunter College and Visiting Clinical Associate Professor at the Yale School of Nursing.

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