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The Burdens of
Disease
Price: $25.95
Subtitle: Epidemics and Human
Response in Western History
Author:
J.N. Hays
Subject: Health
and Medicine
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4613-1
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4612-4
Pages:
376 pages
Publication Date:
November 2009
Description:
A review of the original edition of The Burdens of Disease that
appeared in ISIS stated, “Hays has written a remarkable book. He too
has a message: That epidemics are primarily dependent on poverty and
that the West has consistently refused to accept this.” This revised
edition confirms the book’s timely value and provides a sweeping
approach to the history of disease.
In this updated volume, with revisions
and additions to the original content, including the evolution of
drug-resistant diseases and expanded coverage of HIV/AIDS, along with
recent data on mortality figures and other relevant statistics, J. N.
Hays chronicles perceptions and responses to plague and pestilence over
two thousand years of western history. Disease is framed as a
multidimensional construct, situated at the intersection of history,
politics, culture, and medicine, and rooted in mentalities and social
relations as much as in biological conditions of pathology. This
revised edition of The Burdens of Disease also studies the victims of
epidemics, paying close attention to the relationships among poverty,
power, and disease.
About the Author:
J. N. Hays is a professor emeritus of history at
Loyola University of Chicago.
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