In Time of Plague: The History and Social Consequences of Lethal Epidemic Disease

by Arien Mack

Book Overview

Plague. The word itself is like a blow, connoting misery, miasma and death. Plague takes many forms: influenza, typhus, cholera, the Black Death, and, recently, AIDS. AIDS has reminded us that epidemic infectious disease is not simply a historical phenomenon--or one limited like famine to remote continents --and is a vivid and painful illustration of how epidemics take place at a number of levels --biological event, social perception, collective...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814754856
• ISBN13: 9780814754856
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"