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Cultures of Plague: Medical thinking at the end of the Renaissance
Cultures of Plague Medical thinking at the end of the Renaissance
Author: Samuel K. Cohn Jr.
Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine. Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic vacuum over five centuries, as historians and scientists commonly assume. As plague evolved in its pathology, modes of transmission, and the social characteristics of its victims, so too did m...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199605095
ISBN-10: 0199605092
Publication Date: 6/1/2011
Pages: 360
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Paperback
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