Dread How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu
, by Alcabes, PhilipNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781586488093 | 1586488090
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 4/13/2010
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 inDread, our anxieties about epidemics often stray from the facts on the ground. In a fascinating exploration of the social and cultural history of epidemics, Alcabes delivers a different narrative of diseaseone that requires that we reexamine our choice of enemies, and carefully consider the potential motivation of epidemic alarm-bells to further medical, moral, or political campaigns.