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Epidemics: Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS by Samuel Kline Cohn Jr.
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/356127 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Epidemics: Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS
Author: Samuel Kline Cohn Jr.
Narrator: David Colacci
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 22 hours 48 minutes
Release date: October 16, 2018
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
By investigating thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the distrust and violence that erupted with Ebola in 2014, Epidemics challenges a dominant hypothesis in the study of epidemics, that invariably across time and space, epidemics provoked hatred, blaming of the 'other,' and victimizing bearers of epidemic diseases, particularly when diseases were mysterious, without known cures or preventive measures, as with AIDS during the last two decades of the twentieth century. However, scholars and public intellectuals, especially post-AIDS, have missed a fundamental aspect of the history of epidemics. Instead of sparking hatred and blame, the history of epidemics traced in this study illustrates that more often epidemics inspired compassion and drew communities closer together.
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By thebookvoice.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/356127 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Epidemics: Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS
Author: Samuel Kline Cohn Jr.
Narrator: David Colacci
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 22 hours 48 minutes
Release date: October 16, 2018
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
By investigating thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the distrust and violence that erupted with Ebola in 2014, Epidemics challenges a dominant hypothesis in the study of epidemics, that invariably across time and space, epidemics provoked hatred, blaming of the 'other,' and victimizing bearers of epidemic diseases, particularly when diseases were mysterious, without known cures or preventive measures, as with AIDS during the last two decades of the twentieth century. However, scholars and public intellectuals, especially post-AIDS, have missed a fundamental aspect of the history of epidemics. Instead of sparking hatred and blame, the history of epidemics traced in this study illustrates that more often epidemics inspired compassion and drew communities closer together.