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A combined history of commerce and disease and their disturbing propensity for traveling together Much as we take comfort in the belief that modern medicine and public health tactics can protect us from horrifying contagious diseases such faith is dangerously unfounded So demonstrates Mark Harr ID: 1026432
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[PDF] Download Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease By - MarkHarrison Full Or Descriptions :A combined history of commerce and disease, and their disturbing propensity for travelingtogether Much as we take comfort in the belief that modern medicine and public health tactics canprotect us from horrifying contagious diseases, such faith is dangerously unfounded. Sodemonstrates Mark Harrison in this pathbreaking investigation of the intimate connectionsbetween trade and disease throughout modern history. For centuries commerce has been thesingle most important factor in spreading diseases to different parts of the world, the authorshows, and today the same is true. But in today's global world, commodities and germs arecirculating with unprecedented speed.Beginning with the plagues that ravaged Eurasia in thefourteenth century, Harrison charts both the passage of disease and the desperate measures toprevent it. He examines the emergence of public health in the Western world, its subsequentdevelopment elsewhere, and a recurring pattern of misappropriation of . Details Of Books : Author : Mark Harrison Pages : 400 pages Publisher : Yale University Press Language : eng ISBN-10 : 0300123574 ISBN-13 : 9780300123579