Hardcover, 301 pages
English language
Published July 21, 1996 by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Distributed by Workman Pub. Co..
5 stars
(3 reviews)
The classic chronicle of the impact disease and plagues have had on history and society over the past half-millennium. Intriguingly fascinating and entertaining reading for anyone who is interested in how society copes with catastrophe and pain. Relevant today in face of the worldwide medical calamity of AIDS. Continuously in print since its first publication in 1934, with over 75 printings.
Subjects
- Typhus fever -- History
- Rats as carriers of disease -- History
- Lice as carriers of disease -- History