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General Nonfiction
Regular worth:
$3.99
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$0.99
Deal begins:
March 29, 2023
Deal ends:
March 29, 2023
A newly up to date version of a traditional within the historical past of medication with info on Covid-19.
Arising from collaboration between a physician and a historian, Disease and History provides the final reader a wide-ranging and accessible account of the methods wherein illness has left its dramatic mark on the previous.
It discusses the affect made by bubonic plague and different infections upon the traditional and medieval worlds; the probably function of syphilis within the careers of Henry VIII and Ivan the Terrible; the importance of smallpox for the conquest of Mexico; and the contribution of typhus to Napoleon’s downfall and of haemophilia to the collapse of Tsarist rule in Russia. Other matters surveyed embrace the affect of tropical illnesses within the historical past of the colonization of Africa, and the worldwide death-toll taken by the so-called ‘Spanish’ influenza of 1918-9.
Michael Biddiss and Frederick F. Cartwright present how successive eras have made progress in opposition to pestilence, even whereas confronting new and usually unexpected threats. The last part of the e-book highlights most of the present issues now dealing with a world the place illness – particularly when mixed with warfare, famine, and ecological recklessness – presents an ongoing problem to human survival, as is the case presently with the continuing coronavirus pandemic.
Praise for Disease and History:
‘A study whose outstanding virtues are economy, clarity and readability’ – New Statesman
‘A welcome updating and careful revision of one of the pioneering accounts of the social history of medicine’ – Roy Porter, Professor of the Social History of Medicine, UCL
‘Fascinating and highly recommended’ – Library Journal
Frederick Cartwright was the pinnacle of the Department of the History of Medicine at King’s College Medical School in London.
Michael Biddiss is Emeritus Professor of History and former Dean of Letters and Social Sciences on the University of Reading.
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