Lawrence I. Conrad, Dominik Wujastyk

Contagion (eBook, ePUB)

Perspectives from Pre-Modern Societies

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Contagion - even today the word conjures up fear of disease and plague and has the power to terrify. The nine essays gathered here examine what pre-modern societies thought about the spread of disease and how it could be controlled: to what extent were concepts familiar to modern epidemiology present? What does the pre-modern terminology tell us about the conceptions of those times? How did medical thought relate to religious and social beliefs?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351949248
• Artikelnr.: 48802700

Autorenporträt

Lawrence I. Conrad, Dominik Wujastyk

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
China: Epidemics, weather and contagion in traditional Chinese medicine, Shigehisa Kuriyama
Dispersing the foetal toxin of the body: conceptions of smallpox aetiology in pre-modern China, Chia-Feng Chang
The threatening stranger: Kewu in pre-modern Chinese paediatrics, Christopher Cullen
India: Notions of contagion? in classical Indian medical texts, Rahul Peter Das
Does ancient Indian medicine have a theory of contagion?, Kenneth G. Zysk
Middle East and Europe: Old Testament leprosy?, contagion and sin, Elinor Lieber
Did the Greeks have a word for it?, Vivian Nutton
A 9th-century Muslim scholar's discussion of contagion, Lawrence I. Conrad
Contagion and leprosy: myth, ideas and evolution in medieval minds and societies, François-Olivier Touati
Index.