Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu

Author/Contributor(s):	Alcabes, Philip
Publisher:	PublicAffairs
Date:	04/13/2010
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Alcabes persuasively argues that people's anxieties about epidemics are created not so much by the germ or microbe in question--or the actual risks of contagion--but by the unknown, the undesirable, and the misunderstood. b&w illustration insert.