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| Publisher: QUERCUS |
| Publication Date: 05/02/2008 |
| Format: Hardback |
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A Plethora of Plagues
Disease has had a far greater impact on humankind than war, famine or natural disasters. It is only in recent years that it has ceased to be the key determiner of life expectancy.
This engrossing social history looks at disease through history – particularly its influence on population size, and epidemics that have had a massive social, political and economic impact. Fifty lively and readable essays focus on fifty key diseases, plagues and epidemics, from heart disease to haemophilia, leprosy to lupus, scrofula to syphilis and tuberculosis to typhoid.
Written by a Research Associate of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, this informative work ranges from the fourteenth-century Black Death to the recent AIDS epidemic. It contains timelines, anecdotes, fascinating case histories and medical curiosities, as well as boxed features on significant medical breakthroughs and a wealth of illustrations.
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RRP £16.99
JOINING PRICE £1.75
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