{"product_id":"encyclopedia-of-pestilence-pandemics-and-joseph-p-byrne-9780313341014","title":"Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues: [2 Volumes]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the Athenian flu pandemic to the Black Death to AIDS, this extensive two-volume set offers a sociocultural, historical, and medical look at infectious diseases and their place in human history from Neolithic times to the present. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNearly 300 entries cover individual diseases (such as HIV\/AIDS, malaria, Ebola, and SARS); major epidemics (such as the Black Death, 16th-century syphilis, cholera in the nineteenth century, and the Spanish Flu of 1918-19); environmental factors (such as ecology, travel, poverty, wealth, slavery, and war); and historical and cultural effects of disease (such as the relationship of Romanticism to Tuberculosis, the closing of London theaters during plague epidemics, and the effect of venereal disease on social reform). Primary source sidebars, over 70 illustrations, a glossary, and an extensive print and nonprint bibliography round out the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph P. Byrne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 031334101X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780313341014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Greenwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 920\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 4.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.30h x 7.30w x 2.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2009 pg. 89\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2009 pg. 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eScitech Book News\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2009 pg. 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist Ed Choice Reference\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2010 pg. 17","brand":"Joseph P. Byrne","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48064847577343,"sku":"9780313341014","price":201.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_749fdfcc-a31f-4c4c-88ab-53f5efc63fbc.jpg?v=1768671433","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/encyclopedia-of-pestilence-pandemics-and-joseph-p-byrne-9780313341014","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}