222 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
222 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
Epidemics and the Modern Age focuses on the history of disease and its social significance in a global setting, from the Age of Revolutions to the Covid Pandemic, considering tuberculosis, cholera, the plague, “Spanish” Influenza, HIV/AIDS, and many more.
Blending a history of epidemics with a history of social and cultural responses to disease, the book shows how the spread of illness can be... Read more
Introduction, 1: Epidemics and the Age of Revolutions, 2: Quarantine, Public Health, and Bacteriology, 3: Epidemics and the City, 4: Cholera: A Formative Pandemic for the Modern Age, 5: Empires and Epidemics, 6: From Imperial Medicine to Global Health, 7: War and Influenza, 8: HIV/AIDS, Epilogue: Epidemic Resurgence?
Biography
Alex Chase-Levenson is Associate Professor of History at Binghamton University (SUNY), USA. A specialist in modern British history and in the history of medicine, his prize-winning first book, The Yellow Flag, was published in 2020.
