Perspectives from Pre-Modern Societies
by
Lawrence I. Conrad, Dominik Wujastyk
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Contagion - even today the word conjures up fear of disease and plague and has the power to terrify. The nine essays gathered here examine what pre-modern societies thought about the spread of disease and how it could be controlled: to what extent were concepts familiar to modern epidemiology present?...