A Modern Contagion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Modern Contagion write by Amir A. Afkhami. This book was released on 2019-02-05. A Modern Contagion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Remedying an important deficit in the historiography of medicine, public health, and the Middle East, A Modern Contagion increases our understanding of ongoing sociopolitical challenges in Iran and the rest of the Islamic world.
The Rules of Contagion
The Rules of Contagion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rules of Contagion write by Adam Kucharski. This book was released on 2020-02-13. The Rules of Contagion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An Observer Book of the Year A Times Science Book of the Year A New Statesman Book of the Year A Financial Times Science Book of the Year 'Astonishingly bold' Daily Mail 'It is hard to imagine a more timely book ... much of the modern world will make more sense having read it.' The Times We live in a world that's more interconnected than ever before. Our lives are shaped by outbreaks - of disease, of misinformation, even of violence - that appear, spread and fade away with bewildering speed. To understand them, we need to learn the hidden laws that govern them. From 'superspreaders' who might spark a pandemic or bring down a financial system to the social dynamics that make loneliness catch on, The Rules of Contagion offers compelling insights into human behaviour and explains how we can get better at predicting what happens next. Along the way, Adam Kucharski explores how innovations spread through friendship networks, what links computer viruses with folk stories - and why the most useful predictions aren't necessarily the ones that come true. Now revised and updated with content on Covid-19.
Contagion
Contagion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contagion write by Lawrence I. Conrad. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Contagion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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? The contributors reveal the complexity of ideas on these subjects, from antiquity through to the early modern world, from China to India, the Middle East, and Europe. Particular topics include attitudes to leprosy in the Old Testament and the medieval West, conceptions of smallpox etiology in China, witchcraft and sorcery as disease agents in ancient India, and the influence of classical Greek medical theory. An important conclusion is that non-medical perceptions are as crucial as medical ones in people’s beliefs about disease and the ways in which it can be combatted. Today we may not believe in the power of demons, but the idea that illness is retribution for sin retains great power, as was shown by the popular reaction to the spread of AIDS/HIV, and this is a lesson from the past that the medical profession would do well to heed.
Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe
Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe write by Claire L. Carlin. This book was released on 2005-10-14. Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The ideological underpinnings of early modern theories of contagion are dissected in this volume by an integrated team of literary scholars, cultural historians, historians of medicine and art historians. Even today, the spread of disease inspires moralizing discourse and the ostracism of groups thought responsible for contagion; the fear of illness and the desire to make sense of it are demonstrated in the current preoccupation with HIV, SARS, 'mad cow' disease, West Nile virus and avian flu, to cite but a few contemporary examples. Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe explores the nature of understanding when humanity is faced with threats to its well-being, if not to its very survival.
Homesickness
Homesickness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Homesickness write by Carlos Rojas. This book was released on 2015-04-06. Homesickness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on an understanding of "home-sickness" as the alienation caused by being too close to home, rather than too far away. Views this "sickness" as a precondition for health, as portrayed by writers in China, Greater China, and the diaspora from late Imperial to contemporary times.
