Epidemics : hate and compassion from the plague of Athens to AIDS / Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.

Author: Cohn, Samuel Kline, Jr.
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Copyright Date: ©2018
Edition: First edition.
Physical Description: viii, 643 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. I ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES -- 1.Epidemics in Antiquity: The Moral Universe and Natural Causes -- 2.Ancient Epidemics: What the Oracles Had to Say -- 3.Black Death Persecution and Abandonment -- 4.Mechanisms for Unity: Saints and Plagues -- pt. II EARLY MODERNITY -- 5.Syphilis: Naming and Blaming? -- 6.Plague Spreaders -- pt. III MODERNITY: EPIDEMICS OF HATE -- 7.Cholera's First European Tour: The Story in the British Isles -- 8.Cholera on the Continent and in America -- 9.Cholera Violence: An Italian Story in Comparative Perspective -- 10.Cholera Protest over Time -- 11.Smallpox Cruelty: The Case of North America -- 12.Smallpox and Collective Violence -- 13.Smallpox Violence in Victorian Britain -- pt. IV MODERNITY: PLAGUES OF POLITICS -- 14.Plague since 1894: India -- 15.Plague Beyond India -- 16.Myths of Plague -- pt. V MODERNITY: PLAGUES OF COMPASSION -- 17.Yellow Fever: Stories from Philadelphia and Memphis -- 18.Yellow Fever: The Broader Picture -- 19.The Great Influenza: A Forgotten Pandemic? -- 20.The Great Influenza: Quarantine and Blame -- 21.The Great Influenza: A Pandemic of Compassion -- 22.The Great Influenza: (i) Comparative Vistas -- 23.The Great Influenza: (ii) Comparative Vistas---Beyond the Battlefields -- 24.Conclusion -- 25.Epilogue: HIV/AIDS: A Pandemic of Hate, Compassion, and Politics.

Summary

In this study, Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. investigates hundreds of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the 2014 Ebola outbreak to challenge the dominant hypothesis that epidemics invariably provoke hatred, blaming of the 'other', and victimizing bearers of epidemic diseases.

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ISBN

0198819668 (hardback)
9780198819660 (hardback)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 559-608) and index.

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