Bibliograph

More than hot, a short history of fever, Christopher Hamlin

Type

Label

More than hot, a short history of fever, Christopher Hamlin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

More than hot

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

866859970

Responsibility statement

Christopher Hamlin

Series statement

Johns Hopkins biographies of disease

Sub title

a short history of fever

Summary

This 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.--Publisher information

Table Of Contents

More than hot -- Pt. 1. The fevers of classical medicines : Words ; Books -- Pt. 2. Fever as social : Communities ; Selves -- Pt. 3. Fever becomes modern : Facts ; Naming the wild ; Numbers and nurses -- Pt. 4. Fever, modern and post-modern : Machines, mothers, sex, and zombies.

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