Title Dread : how fear and fantasy have fueled epidemics from the Black Death to avian flu / Philip Alcabes.

Publication Info.	New York : PublicAffairs, [2009]
	©2009

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	RA649 .A43 2009	Available	---

Edition	1st ed.
Description	vii, 313 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-296) and index.
Contents	The sense of an epidemic -- Plague : birth of the model epidemic -- Cholera, poverty, and the politicized epidemic -- Germs, science, and the stranger -- The conquest of contagion -- Postmodern epidemics -- Managing the imagined epidemic.
Subject	Epidemics -- History.
	Epidemics.
	History.
	Communicable diseases -- History.
	Communicable diseases.
	Epidemics -- Psychological aspects.
	Epidemics -- Psychological aspects.
	Epidemics -- Social aspects.
	Epidemics -- Social aspects.
	Nosophobia.
	Nosophobia.
ISBN	9781586486181 alkaline paper
	1586486187 alkaline paper
Standard No.	40016621735