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Author(s)

Jarcho Saul

 

 

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THE CONCEPT OF CONTAGION: In Medicine, Literature, and Religion

Edition

Orig. Ed 2000

Description

Pages

112

Dr. Jarcho's scholarly work highlights the relationship between medicine, literature, and religion.  He describes what the ancient Greeks and Romans wrote, and may have thought about contagion and what caused the spread of disease.  He then considers Moslem ideas on the subject, and follows these with writings by saints, theologians and controversialists in both religious and nonreligious contexts.  His final section presents detailed writings of Leonicenus (1428-1524), a physician and classical scholar, and those of Fracastorius (ca. 1478-1553), an astronomer, cartographer, and philosopher.

Krieger Book Number

231597

ISBN #

1-57524-159-5

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C

U.S. Dollars

$14.5

 

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