Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu
Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu By Philip Alcabes
2010 | 338 Pages | ISBN: 1586488090 | PDF | 2 MB
2010 | 338 Pages | ISBN: 1586488090 | PDF | 2 MB
Deaths from epidemic disease are rare in the developed world, yet in our technically and medically advanced society, an ever-present risk of disease has created an industry out of fear.As Philip Alcabes persuasively argues in Dread, our anxieties about epidemics often stray from the facts on the ground. In a fascinating exploration of the social and cultural history of epidemics, Alcabes delivers a different narrative of disease—one that requires that we reexamine our choice of enemies, and carefully consider the potential motivation of epidemic alarm-bells to further medical, moral, or political campaigns.