Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid

by Sheilagh Ogilvie

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How human institutions--markets, states, communities, religions, guilds and families--have helped both to control and to exacerbate epidemics throughout history.

How do societies tackle epidemic disease? In Controlling Contagion, Sheilagh Ogilvie answers this question by exploring seven centuries of pandemics, from the Black Death to Covid-19. For most of history, infectious diseases have killed many more people than famine...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691255563

ISBN13:9780691255569

Release Date:February 2025

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:544 Pages

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