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Author:

Alcabes, Philip.

Title:

Dread : how fear and fantasy have fueled epidemics from the Black Death to avian flu / Philip Alcabes.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

PublicAffairs,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

vii, 313 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Epidemics--History.
Communicable diseases--History.
Epidemics--Psychological aspects.
Epidemics--Social aspects.
Nosophobia.
Disease Outbreaks--history.
Fear--psychology.
Anxiety--psychology.
Communicable Disease Control.
Communicable Diseases--history.
Health Behavior.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-296) and index.

Contents:

The sense of an epidemic -- Plague : birth of the model epidemic -- Cholera, poverty, and the politicized epidemic -- Germs, science, and the stranger -- The conquest of contagion -- Postmodern epidemics -- Managing the imagined epidemic.

ISBN:

1586486187 (alk. paper)
9781586486181 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)297494709

LCCN:

2009000248

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

RZPE145 -- Carroll Public Library (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)