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Epidemics:Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS '18
Cohn, Jr., Samuel K.
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価格
\9,322(税込)
発行年月
2018年04月
出版社/提供元
Oxford University Press
出版国
イギリス
言語
英語
媒体
冊子
装丁
hardcover
ページ数/巻数
656 p., 13 b/w images/maps
ジャンル
洋書/生命科学・医学/社会医学/公衆衛生学一般
ISBN
9780198819660
商品コード
1025521935
本の性格
学術書
新刊案内掲載月
2018年02月
商品URL
https://kw.maruzen.co.jp/ims/itemDetail.html?itmCd=1025521935
内容
By investigating thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the distrust and violence that erupted with Ebola in 2014, Epidemics challenges a dominant hypothesis in the study of epidemics, that invariably across time and space, epidemics provoked hatred, blaming of the 'other', and victimizing bearers of epidemic diseases, particularly when diseases were mysterious, without known cures or preventive measures, as with AIDS during the last two decades of the twentieth century. However, scholars and public intellectuals, especially post-AIDS, have missed a fundamental aspect of the history of epidemics. Instead of sparking hatred and blame, this study traces epidemics' socio-psychological consequences across time and discovers a radically different picture: that epidemic diseases have more often unified societies across class, race, ethnicity, and religion, spurring self-sacrifice and compassion.