More Than Hot: A Short History of Fever

(Part of the Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease Series)

by Christopher Hamlin

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A conceptual and cultural history of fever, a universally experienced and sometimes feared symptom.

Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL

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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:142141502X

ISBN13:9781421415024

Release Date:November 2014

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:400 Pages

Weight:1.03 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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