Contagion : perspectives from pre-modern societies /

Contagion : perspectives from pre-modern societies /

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History of medicine

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
Other Authors: Conrad, Lawrence I., 1949-, Wujastyk, D.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2000]
Subjects:
Communicable Diseases > history.
Disease Outbreaks > history.
History, Ancient.
Social Conditions.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. China
  • Epidemics, weather, and contagion in traditional Chinese medicine / Shigehisa Kuriyama
  • Dispersing the fetal toxin of the body: conceptions of smallpox etiology in pre-modern China / Chia-Feng Chang
  • The threatening stranger: kewu in pre-modern Chinese pediatrics / Christopher Cullen
  • Pt. 2. India
  • Notions of "contagion" in classical Indian medical texts / Rahul Peter Das
  • Does ancient Indian medicine have a theory of contagion? / Kenneth G. Zysk
  • Pt. 3. Middle East and Europe
  • Old Testament "leprosy", contagion and sin / Elinor Lieber
  • Did the Greeks have a word for it? / Vivian Nutton
  • A ninth-century Muslim scholar's discussion of contagion / Lawrence I. Conrad
  • Contagion and leprosy: myth, ideas and evolution in medieval minds and societies / Franco̧is-Olivier Touati.