{"id":20199,"date":"2020-04-08T14:25:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T14:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=20199"},"modified":"2020-04-08T14:25:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T14:25:49","slug":"frank-m-snowden-epidemics-and-society-from-the-black-death-to-the-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=20199","title":{"rendered":"Frank M. Snowden, \u201cEpidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

This sweeping exploration of the impact of epidemic diseases looks at how mass infectious outbreaks have shaped society, from the Black Death to today. In a clear and accessible style, Frank M. Snowden reveals the ways that diseases have not only influenced medical science and public health, but also transformed the arts, religion, intellectual history, and warfare.<\/p>\n

A multidisciplinary and comparative investigation of the medical and social history of the major epidemics, this volume touches on themes such as the evolution of medical therapy, plague literature, poverty, the environment, and mass hysteria. In addition to providing historical perspective on diseases such as smallpox, cholera, and tuberculosis, Snowden examines the fallout from recent epidemics such as HIV\/AIDS, SARS, and Ebola and the question of the world\u2019s preparedness for the next generation of diseases.<\/p>\n

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Yale University Press<\/p>\n

October 22, 2019<\/p>\n

600 pages<\/p>\n

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Frank M. Snowden<\/strong> is Andrew Downey Orrick Professor Emeritus of History and History of Medicine at Yale University. His previous books include The Conquest of Malaria: Italy, 1900\u20131962<\/em> and Naples in the Time of Cholera, 1884\u20131911.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cBrilliant and sobering.\u201d\u2014Paul Kennedy, Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Essential reading for anyone who is concerned about society\u2019s preparedness to meet new microbial challenges and who appreciates the importance of history to develop effective and efficient responses.”\u2014Socrates Litsios, author of The Tomorrow of Malaria<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cA superb synthesis of a complex and important topic. Snowden brings to the subject a wealth of previous research on disease and brilliantly integrates his work into more general historical concerns. A major achievement.\u201d\u2014William Bynum, author of A Little History of Science<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Professor Snowden provides an authoritative and very readable historical account of several of the major the major infectious diseases epidemics that have afflicted mankind with a focus on their impact on society.”\u2014Brian Greenwood,\u00a0London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine<\/p>\n

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“In an era of rapidly emerging diseases, Epidemics and Society<\/em> reminds us that in framing epidemics we are also, always, refiguring human life and fate in relation to ecology and society.”\u2014Warwick Anderson, author of Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201c[A] wide-ranging study\u201d\u2014Laura Spinney, Nature<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cA distinctive and very useful contribution to the public understanding of disease.”\u2014Mark Harrison, author of\u00a0Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease<\/em>\u00a0and Director, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine<\/p>\n

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“Illuminating and instructive, jam-packed with fascinating details. . . . A splendid\u2014and scary\u2014account of a potent and still-present threat to humankind.”\u2014Glenn Altschuler, Florida Courier<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Snowden . . . examines the ways in which disease outbreaks have shaped politics, crushed revolutions, and entrenched racial and economic discrimination. . . . Gigantic in scope, stretching across centuries and continents, Snowden\u2019s account seeks to explain, too, the ways in which social structures have allowed diseases to flourish.”\u2014Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker<\/em><\/p>\n

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“A very useful, wide-ranging review of the multiple connections between epidemic disease and historical change and development. . . . A very readable book. Highly recommended. All readers.”\u2014Choice<\/em><\/p>\n

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#1 of “5 Books to Read for Context on the Coronavirus Outbreak”\u2014World Economic Forum<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Covering roughly a millennium on about 550 pages is no small task\u2026very readable”\u2014Christoph Gradmann, The Lancet<\/em><\/p>\n

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https:\/\/yalebooks.yale.edu\/book\/9780300192216\/epidemics-and-society<\/a><\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/q-and-a\/how-pandemics-change-history<\/a><\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.tportal.hr\/kultura\/clanak\/kako-su-epidemije-oblikovale-drustvo-od-crne-smrti-do-danas-americki-povjesnicar-medicine-podsjeca-svi-smo-dio-iste-vrste-i-u-ovome-smo-svi-zajedno-foto-20200312<\/a><\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.index.hr\/vijesti\/clanak\/kako-su-pandemije-mijenjale-povijest\/2165768.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n

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