Dread

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

By: Philip Alcabes

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Paperback | 13 April 2010 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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"the horrifying notion of epidemic disease is so ingrained that you will be halfway through this intriguing book before you realise just how hysterical we all are." BBC Focus Magazine "the next time you see someone wearing a face mask on the Tube...hit them over the head with (this) book"!!! The Sunday Times"

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Non-Fiction Medicine Medicine in General Public Health & Preventive Medicine Epidemiology & Medical Statistics Clinical & Internal Medicine Diseases & Disorders Infectious & Contagious Diseases History of Medicine Family & Health Popular Medicine & Health Science

Science in General History General & World History Coping with / Advice about Personal, Social & Health Topics Coping with / Advice about Illness & Specific Health Conditions Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History

Introduction: The Origins of Dread	p. 1
The Sense of an Epidemic	p. 7
Plague: Birth of the Model Epidemic	p. 21
Cholera, Poverty, and the Politicized Epidemic	p. 53
Germs, Science, and the Stranger	p. 83
The Conquest of Contagion	p. 119
Postmodern Epidemics	p. 143
Managing the Imagined Epidemic	p. 181
Epilogue: The Risk-Free Life	p. 215
Acknowledgments	p. 231
Notes	p. 235
Selected Bibliography	p. 289
Index	p. 297
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Dread

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

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