The Burdens of Disease: Epidemics and Human Response in Western History by J. Daniel Hays

The Burdens of Disease: Epidemics and Human Response in Western History

J. Daniel Hays

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nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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Beginning with the legacy of Greek, Roman, and early Christian ideas about disease, the book then discusses many of the dramatic epidemics from the fourteenth through the twentieth centuries, moving from leprosy and bubonic plague through syphilis...

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