Philip Norrie

Gebundenes Buch

A History of Disease in Ancient Times

More Lethal than War

Beschreibung

This book shows how bubonic plague and smallpox helpedend the Hittite Empire, the Bronze Age in the Near East and later theCarthaginian Empire. The book will examine all the possible infectious diseasespresent in ancient times and show that life was a daily struggle for survivaleither avoiding or fighting against these infectious disease epidemics. Thebook will argue that infectious disease epidemics are a critical link in thechain of causation for the demise of most civilizations in the ancient worldand that ancient historians should no longer ignore them, as is currently thecase.

Autor

Philip Norrie is a family physician in Sydney, Australia and a Conjoint Senior Lecturer in the Medical Faculty at the University of New South Wales, Australia. His main interest is medical history with the role of infectious disease epidemics on history and the history of wine as a medicine for the past 5,000 years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-28936-6
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 320g
• ISBN-13: 9783319289366
• ISBN-10: 3319289365
• Artikelnr.: 44247765