Contagion - even today the word conjures up fear of disease and plague and has the power to terrify. The nine essays gathered here examine what pre-modern societies thought about the spread of disease and how it could be controlled: to what extent were concepts familiar to modern epidemiology present? What does the pre-modern terminology tell us about the conceptions of those times? How did medical thought relate to...
Lawrence I. Conrad, Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg, Germany and Dominik Wujastyk, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London, UK Shigehisa Kuriyama, Chia-Feng Chang, Christopher Cullen, Rahul Peter Das, Kenneth G. Zysk, Elinor Lieber, Vivian Nutton, Lawrence I. Conrad, Francois-Olivier Touati.
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