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Published in: Society 4/2020

20-07-2020 | Book Review

Frank M. Snowden, Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. 608 pp. $22.00. ISBN: 978-0300256390

Author: Peter I. Rose

Published in: Society | Issue 4/2020

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“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in our history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.” Those words of Albert Camus are uncannily timely. …
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Title
Frank M. Snowden, Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. 608 pp. $22.00. ISBN: 978-0300256390
Author
Peter I. Rose
Publication date
20-07-2020
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Society / Issue 4/2020
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-020-00517-z

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