More Than Hot: A Short History of Fever

by Christopher Hamlin

A conceptual and cultural history of fever, a universally experienced and sometimes feared symptom.

Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL

Christopher Hamlin's magisterial work engages a common experience--fever--in all its varieties and meanings. Reviewing the representations of that condition from ancient times to the present, More Than Hot is a history of the world through the lens of fever...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142141502X
• ISBN13: 9781421415024
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"