Dread How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu 1st Edition by Philip Alcabes ISBN 1586488090 9781586488093

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ISBN 10: 1586488090
ISBN 13: 9781586488093
Author: Philip Alcabes

Dread How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu 1st Edition Table of contents:

CHAPTER 1 – THE SENSE OF AN EPIDEMIC

CHAPTER 2 – PLAGUE: BIRTH OF THE MODEL EPIDEMIC

THE COMING OF PLAGUE TO EUROPE

DISEASE AND FEARS OF CONSPIRACY

PLAGUE AND VIOLENCE TOWARD JEWS

ILLNESS AND FAITH

PLAGUE AND THE GROWTH OF THE STATE

“BLACK DEATH”

CHAPTER 3 – CHOLERA, POVERTY, AND THE POLITICIZED EPIDEMIC

CHOLERA’S BEGINNINGS

A DISEASE OF THE POOR

THE POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION OF ILLNESS

MIASMA AND THE RISE OF SCIENCE

CHOLERA AND UTILITARIANISM

CHOLERA IN AMERICA

ILLNESS AND IMMIGRATION

CHAPTER 4 – GERMS, SCIENCE, AND THE STRANGER

GERM THEORY VICTORIOUS

THE BIRTH AND GROWTH OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

MICROBIOLOGY’S DEBUT

EVOLUTION, SOCIAL DARWINISM, AND THE CARRIER

GERMS IN AMERICA

GERMS, FLU, AND FEAR

THE AFTERMATH OF GERM THEORY

CHAPTER 5 – THE CONQUEST OF CONTAGION

PROGRESSIVISM AND MORALISM

GERMS AND THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION

“YOU CANNOT HAVE OMELETTES WITHOUT BREAKING EGGS”

BEYOND EUGENICS

BEYOND GERM THEORY

CHAPTER 6 – POSTMODERN EPIDEMICS

AN EXTRAORDINARY EPIDEMIC

DEBATES ABOUT DEVIANCE

THE MIXING OF CAUSE AND EFFECT

THE BEHAVIORAL TURN: EDUCATION AS POLICY

EDUCATION IN LIEU OF POLICY

THE PERSISTENT THEME OF BEHAVIOR

THE WORLD’S EPIDEMIC

CHAPTER 7 – MANAGING THE IMAGINED EPIDEMIC

THE BIOTERRORISM SCARE

HEALTH OFFICIALS AS SOOTHSAYERS

THE OBESITY SCARE

OBESITY AS FALL GUY FOR MODERN FEARS

MANAGING MISGIVINGS ABOUT PARENTING: CHILDHOOD OBESITY

AUTISM, THE ADMINISTRATIVE EPIDEMIC

EPILOGUE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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NOTES

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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