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More Than Hot : A Short History of Fever.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease SeriesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (398 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421415031
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: More Than HotDDC classification:
  • 614.5/112
LOC classification:
  • RB129 .H36 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. More Than HOT -- Part I. The Fevers of Classical Medicines -- Chapter 2. Words -- Chapter 3. Books -- Part II. Fever as Social -- Chapter 4. Communities -- Chapter 5. Selves -- Part III. Fever Becomes Modern -- Chapter 6. Facts -- Chapter 7. Naming the Wild -- Chapter 8. Numbers and Nurses -- Part IV. Fever, Modern and Post-Modern -- Chapter 9. Machines, Mothers, Sex, and Zombies -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Broad in scope and sweep, Hamlin's study is a reflection of how the meanings of diseases continue to shift, affecting not only the identities we create but often our ability to survive.
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Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. More Than HOT -- Part I. The Fevers of Classical Medicines -- Chapter 2. Words -- Chapter 3. Books -- Part II. Fever as Social -- Chapter 4. Communities -- Chapter 5. Selves -- Part III. Fever Becomes Modern -- Chapter 6. Facts -- Chapter 7. Naming the Wild -- Chapter 8. Numbers and Nurses -- Part IV. Fever, Modern and Post-Modern -- Chapter 9. Machines, Mothers, Sex, and Zombies -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Broad in scope and sweep, Hamlin's study is a reflection of how the meanings of diseases continue to shift, affecting not only the identities we create but often our ability to survive.

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