More Than Hot
a short history of fever
$69.87
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
14 November 2014
Summary
Christopher Hamlin’s magisterial work engages a common experience-fever-in all its varieties and meanings. Reviewing the representations of that condition from ancient times to the present, More Than Hot is a history of the world through the lens of fever. The book deals with the expression of fever, with the efforts of medical scientists to classify it, and with fever’s changing social, cultural, and political significance. Long before there were thermometers to measure it, people recognized…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781421415024 |
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| ISBN-10: | 142141502X |
| Author: | Christopher Hamlin |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Imprint: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 14 November 2014 |
| Weight: | 476g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease |
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Critics Review
Hamlin expounds, with grace, wit and learning, the thinking of many of the major figures of medicine… Hamlin trawls medicine’s history with great effect, uncovering a number of forgotten figures who had their own ideas about the causes, consequences and treatment of fever. – W.F. Bynum Times Literary Supplement
About The Author
Christopher Hamlin
Christopher Hamlin is a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick: Britain, 1800-1854, and Cholera: The Biography.
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