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Livres anciens et modernes

Alcabes Philip

Dread: How Fear and Fantasy have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to the Avian Flu (ISBN:1586486187)

Public Affairs New York 2009,

20,00 €

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Auteur
Alcabes Philip
Éditeurs
Public Affairs New York 2009
Description
H
Jaquette
Non
Etat de conservation
En bonne condition
Reliure
Couverture rigide
Dédicacée
Non
Premiére Edition
Non

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8vo, hardcover, no jacket ex library labels and stamps. Dread" traces the history of epidemics in Western society from the ancient Greeks to the present day and persuasively argues that our anxieties about outbreaks of disease often stray from the facts to incorporate inflated fears about what is unknown, undesirable, or misunderstood. Fear and imagination help drive the epidemic narrative as much as and, surprisingly, often more than fact." 314 pages. A dustjacket blurb exclaims: "Dread" is an insightful education in how art and science inform each other in a cultural synergy that, even today, keeps us from discerning what is medicine and what is myth. The word 'genius' has been debased by frequent use, but this is a work of undeniable genius in the most exalted sense. What Stephen Jay Gould did for natural history, Philip Alcabes has done for public health.