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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...

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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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  • PublisherRoutledge
  • Publication date2000
  • ISBN 10 0754602583
  • ISBN 13 9780754602583
  • BindingHardcover
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages242

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. xviii, 224 pp. Original laminated boards. Near Fine, without dust jacket (as issued). Contents: Preface; Introduction; Part I: China: Epidemics, weather and contagion in traditional Chinese medicine, Shigehisa Kuriyama; Dispersing the foetal toxin of the body: conceptions of smallpox aetiology in pre-modern China, Chia-Feng Chang; The threatening stranger: Kewu in pre-modern Chinese paediatrics, Christopher Cullen; Part II: India: Notions of 'contagion' in classical Indian medical texts, Rahul Peter Das; Does ancient Indian medicine have a theory of contagion?, Kenneth G. Zysk; Part III: Middle East and Europe: Old Testament 'leprosy', contagion and sin, Elinor Lieber; Did the Greeks have a word for it?, Vivian Nutton; A ninth-century Muslim scholar's discussion of contagion, Lawrence I. Conrad; Contagion and leprosy: myth, ideas and evolution in medieval minds and societies, François-Olivier Touati; Contributors; Index. Seller Inventory # 17892

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