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100 1 $aWatts, S. J.$q(Sheldon J.)
245 10 $aEpidemics and history :$bdisease, power, and imperialism /$cSheldon Watts.
250 $aFirst paperback edition.
264 1 $aNew Haven, Conn. :$bYale University Press,$c1999.
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500 $aOriginally published: 1997.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 368-384) and index.
505 0 $aThe human response to plague in Western Europe and the Middle East, 1347 to 1844 -- Dark hidden meanings: leprosy and lepers in the medieval west and in the tropical world under the European imperium -- Smallpox in the New World and in the Old: from holocaust to eradication, 1518 to 1977 -- The secret plague: syphilis in West Europe and East Asia -- Cholera and civilization: Great Britain and India -- Yellow fever, malaria and development: Atlantic Africa and the New World, 1647 to 1928.
520 $aThis book is a major and wide-ranging study of the great epidemic scourges of humanity - plague, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, cholera, and yellow fever/malaria - over the last six centuries. It is also much more. Sheldon Watts, a cultural and social historian who has spent much of his career studying and teaching in the worldʹs South, applies a wholly original perspective to the study of global disease, exploring the connections between the movement of epidemics and the manifestations of imperial power in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and in European homelands. He shows how the perceptions of whom a disease targeted changed over time and effected various political and medical responses. He argues that not only did Western medicine fail to cure the diseases that its own expansion engendered, but that imperial medicine was in fact an agent and tool of empire. -- Publisher description.
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