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A Discourse on the Plague

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Author : Richard Mead
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465610928
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (656 download)

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Download or read book A Discourse on the Plague written by Richard Mead and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MY Design in this Discourse being to propose what Measures I think most proper to defend the Nation against the Plague, and for this End to consider the Nature of Pestilential Contagion as far as is necessary to set forth the Reasonableness of the Precepts I shall lay down; before I proceed to any particular Directions, I shall enquire a little into the Causes, whence the Plague arises, and by what Means the Infection of it is spread. In the most ancient Times Plagues, like many other Diseases, were looked upon as divine Judgments sent to punish the Wickedness of Mankind: and therefore the only Defence sought after was by Sacrifices and Lustrations to appease the Anger of incensed Heaven. How much soever may be said to justify Reflexions of this Kind, since we are assured from sacred History, that divine Vengeance has been sometimes executed by Plagues; yet it is certain, that such Speculations pushed too far, were then attended with ill Consequences, by obstructing Inquiries into natural Causes, and encouraging a supine Submission to those Evils: against which the infinitely good and wise Author of Nature has in most Cases provided proper Remedies. Upon this Account, in After-Ages, when the Profession of Physick came to be founded upon the Knowledge of Nature, Hippocrates strenuously opposed this Opinion, that some particular Sicknesses were Divine, or sent immediately from the Gods; and affirmed, that no Diseases came more from the Gods than others, all coming from them, and yet all owning their proper natural Causes: that the Sun, Cold, and Winds were divine; the Changes of which, and their Influences on human Bodies, were diligently to be considered by a Physician. Which general Position this great Author of Physick intended to be understood with respect to Plagues as well as other Distempers: How far he had reason herein, will in some measure appear, when we come to search into the Causes of this Disease. But in order to this Inquiry, it will be convenient, in the first place, to remove an erroneous Opinion some have entertained, that the Plague differs not from a common Fever in any thing besides its greater Violence. Whereas it is very evident, that since the Small-Pox and Measles are allowed to be Distempers distinct in Specie from all others, on account of certain Symptoms peculiar to them; so, for the same reason, it ought to be granted, that the Plague no less differs in Kind from ordinary Fevers: For there are a Set of distinguishing Symptoms as essential to the Pestilence, as the respective Eruptions are to the Small-Pox or Measles; which are indeed (as I have mentioned in the Preface) each of them Plagues of a particular kind.

Positive Images

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Author : Dion Kagan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838608982
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book Positive Images written by Dion Kagan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tidal wave of panic surrounded homosexuality and AIDS in the 1980s and early 1990s, the period commonly called 'The AIDS Crisis'. With the advent of antiretroviral drugs in the mid '90s, however, the meaning of an HIV diagnosis radically changed. These game-changing drugs now enable many people living with HIV to lead a healthy, regular life, but how has this dramatic shift impacted the representation of gay men and HIV in popular culture? Positive Images is the first detailed examination of how the relationship between gay men and HIV has transformed in the past two decades. From Queer as Folk to Chemsex, The Line of Beauty to The Normal Heart, Dion Kagan examines literature, film, TV, documentaries and news coverage from across the English-speaking world to unearth the socio-cultural foundations underpinning this 'post-crisis' period. His analyses provide acute insights into the fraught legacies of the AIDS Crisis and its continued presence in the modern queer consciousness.

The Postmodern Turn

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Author : Steven Seidman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521458795
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book The Postmodern Turn written by Steven Seidman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-11-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Postmodern Turn gathers together in one volume some of the most important statements of the postmodern approach to human studies. In addressing postmodern social theory and emphasising the social role of knowledge, this book abandons the disciplinary boundaries separating the sciences and the humanities. The first collection of its kind, it provides the classic essays of authors such as Lyotard, Haraway, Foucault and Rorty. Contributors include well-known theorists in the fields of sociology, anthropology, women's and gay studies, philosophy, and history.

The Plague Race

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Author : Edward Marriott
Publisher : Pan MacMillan
ISBN 13 : 9780330483193
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book The Plague Race written by Edward Marriott and published by Pan MacMillan. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring story of scientific endeavour and human bravery, The Plague Race is the story of one brave scientist who made an amazing discovery made in Hong Kong 100 years ago -- during an outbreak of the plague that threatened to decimate the island and, from there, the world. A tense and frightening race was run in appalling conditions by two rival scientists: Alexandre Yersin - rigorous, solitary, cerebral - and the suave Kitasako, unscrupulous, enigmatic, careless. Spiced with anecdotes, facts and chilling reconstructions, this book is an enthralling work of narrative history. And Marriott's investigations into plague in the modern world bring some disturbing facts to light . . . 'Beautifully written . . . Marriott's discourse encompasses empire, science and discovery as well as prejudice . . . The Plague Race is part history, part thesis, part thriller. As an investigation, it is all-entrancing' Observer

Pestilence and the Body Politic in Latin Literature

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Author : Hunter H. Gardner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198796420
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Pestilence and the Body Politic in Latin Literature written by Hunter H. Gardner and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman writers of the late Roman Republic and early Empire developed important conventions of the western plague narrative as a response to the destabilization of the body politic. This volume examines how they used largely fictive representations of epidemic disease to address the collapse of the social order and suggest remedies for its recovery.

Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Daniel Webster

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Author : Theodore Parker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Daniel Webster written by Theodore Parker and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An uncomplimentary memorial emphasizing negative aspects of Webster's Seventh of March speech and criticizing certain personal qualities and habits.

An Empire Transformed

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Author : Kate Luce Mulry
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479895261
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book An Empire Transformed written by Kate Luce Mulry and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the efforts to bring political order to the English empire through projects of environmental improvement When Charles II ascended the English throne in 1660 after two decades of civil war, he was confronted with domestic disarray and a sprawling empire in chaos. His government sought to assert control and affirm the King’s sovereignty by touting his stewardship of both England’s land and the improvement of his subjects’ health. By initiating ambitious projects of environmental engineering, including fen and marshland drainage, forest rehabilitation, urban reconstruction, and garden transplantation schemes, agents of the English Restoration government aimed to transform both places and people in service of establishing order. Merchants, colonial officials, and members of the Royal Society encouraged royal intervention in places deemed unhealthy, unproductive, or poorly managed. Their multiple schemes reflected an enduring belief in the complex relationships between the health of individual bodies, personal and communal character, and the landscapes they inhabited. In this deeply researched work, Kate Mulry highlights a period of innovation during which officials reassessed the purpose of colonies, weighed their benefits and drawbacks, and engineered and instituted a range of activities in relation to subjects’ bodies and material environments. These wide-ranging actions offer insights about how restoration officials envisioned authority within a changing English empire. An Empire Transformed is an interdisciplinary work addressing a series of interlocking issues concerning ideas about the environment, governance, and public health in the early modern English Atlantic empire.

Piety and Plague

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Author : Franco Mormando
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 161248008X
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Piety and Plague written by Franco Mormando and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plague was one of the enduring facts of everyday life on the European continent, from earliest antiquity through the first decades of the eighteenth century. It represents one of the most important influences on the development of Europe’s society and culture. In order to understand the changing circumstances of the political, economic, ecclesiastical, artistic, and social history of that continent, it is important to understand epidemic disease and society’s response to it. To date, the largest portion of scholarship about plague has focused on its political, economic, demographic, and medical aspects. This interdisciplinary volume offers greater coverage of the religious and the psychological dimensions of plague and of European society’s response to it through many centuries and over a wide geographical terrain, including Byzantium. This research draws extensively upon a wealth of primary sources, both printed and painted, and includes ample bibliographical reference to the most important secondary sources, providing much new insight into how generations of Europeans responded to this dread disease.

Bulletin

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Author : Nottingham (England). Public Libraries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Bulletin written by Nottingham (England). Public Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Catalogue

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Author : Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Catalogue written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Homographesis

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Author : Lee Edelman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134567235
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Homographesis written by Lee Edelman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings provocative, rigorous and controversial readings of literary and cultural texts to gay critical analysis. Lee Edelman rearticulates the politics of sexuality, addressing some of the most hotly debated issues of our time.

Plague Ports

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Author : Myron Echenberg
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814722334
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Plague Ports written by Myron Echenberg and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the global effects of the bubonic plague, and what we can learn from this earlier pandemic A century ago, the third bubonic plague swept the globe, taking more than 15 million lives. Plague Ports tells the story of ten cities on five continents that were ravaged by the epidemic in its initial years: Hong Kong and Bombay, the Asian emporiums of the British Empire where the epidemic first surfaced; Sydney, Honolulu and San Francisco, three “pearls” of the Pacific; Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro in South America; Alexandria and Cape Town in Africa; and Oporto in Europe. Myron Echenberg examines plague's impact in each of these cities, on the politicians, the medical and public health authorities, and especially on the citizenry, many of whom were recent migrants crammed into grim living spaces. He looks at how different cultures sought to cope with the challenge of deadly epidemic disease, and explains the political, racial, and medical ineptitudes and ignorance that allowed the plague to flourish. The forces of globalization and industrialization, Echenberg argues, had so increased the transmission of microorganisms that infectious disease pandemics were likely, if not inevitable. This fascinating, expansive history, enlivened by harrowing photographs and maps of each city, sheds light on urbanism and modernity at the turn of the century, as well as on glaring public health inequalities. With the recent outbreak of COVID-19, and ongoing fears of bioterrorism, Plague Ports offers a necessary and timely historical lesson.

The Black Death and the Transformation of the West

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Author : David Herlihy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674744233
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Black Death and the Transformation of the West written by David Herlihy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997-09-28 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this small book David Herlihy makes subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about the Black Death. Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new population controls, the establishment of universities, the spread of Christianity, the dissemination of vernacular cultures, and even the rise of nationalism. This book, which displays a distinguished scholar's masterly synthesis of diverse materials, reveals that the Black Death can be considered the cornerstone of the transformation of Europe.

A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Daniel Webster

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Author : Theodore Parker
Publisher : University of Michigan Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Daniel Webster written by Theodore Parker and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1853 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plague

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Author : Kent Heckenlively
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510726357
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Plague written by Kent Heckenlively and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 22, 2009, a special meeting was held with twenty-four leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health to discuss early findings that a newly discovered retrovirus was linked to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), prostate cancer, lymphoma, and eventually neurodevelopmental disorders in children. When Dr. Judy Mikovits finished her presentation the room was silent for a moment, then one of the scientists said, “Oh my God!” The resulting investigation would be like no other in science. For Dr. Mikovits, a twenty-year veteran of the National Cancer Institute, this was the midpoint of a five-year journey that would start with the founding of the Whittemore-Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease at the University of Nevada, Reno, and end with her as a witness for the federal government against her former employer, Harvey Whittemore, for illegal campaign contributions to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. On this journey Dr. Mikovits would face the scientific prejudices against CFS, wander into the minefield that is autism, and through it all struggle to maintain her faith in God and the profession to which she had dedicated her life. This is a story for anybody interested in the peril and promise of science at the very highest levels in our country.

A catalogue of the library of the corporation of ... London

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Author : London corporation, libr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book A catalogue of the library of the corporation of ... London written by London corporation, libr and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of London Institude in the Year 1824

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Author : Guildhall Library (London, England)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)

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