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Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu
Dread How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu
Author: Philip Alcabes
Deaths from epidemic disease are rare in the developed world, yet in our technically and medically advanced society, an ever-present risk of disease has created an industry out of fear.As Philip Alcabes persuasively argues in Dread, our anxieties about epidemics often stray from the facts on the ground. In a fascinating exploration of the...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781586488093
ISBN-10: 1586488090
Publication Date: 4/13/2010
Pages: 336
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: PublicAffairs
Book Type: Paperback
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