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Christopher Hamlin

More Than Hot

A Short History of Fever

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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 fever as a dangerous, if transitory, state of being. It was the most familiar form of alienation from the normal self, a concern to communities and stat… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4214-1503-1
  • EAN: 9781421415031
  • Produktnummer: 35555127
  • Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 0 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor


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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