Author: J. Peele (Londres)
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Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Author: Matthew Mead
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Category : Dissenters, Religious
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Category : Hygiene
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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Author: Ambroise Paré
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Category : Anatomy
Languages : en
Pages : 900

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Author: Byron Lee Grigsby
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113588384X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature examines three diseases--leprosy, bubonic plague, and syphilis--to show how doctors, priests, and literary authors from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance interpreted certain illnesses through a moral filter. Lacking knowledge about the transmission of contagious diseases, doctors and priests saw epidemic diseases as a punishment sent by God for human transgression. Accordingly, their job was to properly read sickness in relation to the sin. By examining different readings of specific illnesses, this book shows how the social construction of epidemic diseases formed a kind of narrative wherein man attempts to take the control of the disease out of God's hands by connecting epidemic diseases to the sins of carnality.

Author: Ruth MacKay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108498205
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291

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Offers an original and holistic approach to understanding the impact of the plague in late sixteenth-century Spain.

Author: Brian L. Porter
Publisher: Next Chapter
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Breathe... if you dare. English countryside, 1958. The idyllic village of Olney St. Mary has stood in its peaceful location for over 900 years. Until one day, when two teenage boys are struck by a mysterious illness. The newly arrived Doctor Hilary Newton suspects a common flu to be the cause of their malady. Before long, the doctor and residents of Olney St. Mary are plunged into a nightmare, as the disease ravages the local population. Despite the doctors employing the latest medicine available, the death toll keeps rising. Someone in the village knows the reason behind the pestilence that has struck at the heart of the village, but can the medics learn the truth before it's too late, or will they join the growing list of names that appear on the death roll in Olney St. Mary?

Author: Joseph P. Byrne
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1573569593
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 917

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Editor Joseph P. Byrne, together with an advisory board of specialists and over 100 scholars, research scientists, and medical practitioners from 13 countries, has produced a uniquely interdisciplinary treatment of the ways in which diseases pestilence, and plagues have affected human life. From the Athenian flu pandemic to the Black Death to AIDS, this extensive two-volume set offers a sociocultural, historical, and medical look at infectious diseases and their place in human history from Neolithic times to the present. Nearly 300 entries cover individual diseases (such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, Ebola, and SARS); major epidemics (such as the Black Death, 16th-century syphilis, cholera in the nineteenth century, and the Spanish Flu of 1918-19); environmental factors (such as ecology, travel, poverty, wealth, slavery, and war); and historical and cultural effects of disease (such as the relationship of Romanticism to Tuberculosis, the closing of London theaters during plague epidemics, and the effect of venereal disease on social reform). Primary source sidebars, over 70 illustrations, a glossary, and an extensive print and nonprint bibliography round out the work.

Author: Edward Hawkins
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Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Author: Bryon Lee Grigsby
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415968225
Category : Diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.