Summary of Dread
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Reader Capitol
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| Titolo: |
Summary of Dread
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| Pubblicazione: | Cork, : Primento Digital, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (24 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 614.4 |
| Soggetto topico: | Communicable diseases -- History |
| Epidemics -- History | |
| Epidemics -- Psychological aspects | |
| Epidemics -- Social aspects | |
| Fear -- Psychology | |
| Nosophobia | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Title page; Book Presentation; Book Abstract; About the Author; Important Note About This Ebook; Summary of Dread (Philip Alcabes); Introduction; The Origins of Dread; 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; Conclusion; Buy the Book; About the Summary Publisher; Copyright |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Philip Alcabes in his book "Dread: How fear and Fantasy have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to the Avian Flu". This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However this work does not replace in any case Philip Alcabes' book.<br>Alcabes examines epidemics and shows how these reflect the social and cultural anxieties of the time.<br> |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Summary of Dread |
| ISBN: | 9782511000618 |
| 251100061X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910163972403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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