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Dread: How Fear and Fantasy have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to the Avian Flu
Dread How Fear and Fantasy have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to the Avian Flu
Author: Philip Alcabes
The average individual is far more likely to die in a car accident than from a communicable disease?yet we are still much more fearful of the epidemic. Even at our most level-headed, the thought of an epidemic can inspire terror. As Philip Alcabes persuasively argues in Dread, our anxieties about epidemics are created not so much by the g...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781586486181
ISBN-10: 1586486187
Publication Date: 4/13/2009
Pages: 336
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Publisher: PublicAffairs
Book Type: Hardcover
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