39 pages • 1 hour read
Plagues and Peoples
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976
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What, in McNeill’s definition, is a disease? How does it differ from other dangers mankind faces?
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How does the change in geography produced by human demographical growth affect disease patterns?
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Why did McNeill radically decenter humanity from what is essentially a narrative about humanity? What definitional tools did he use to make that decentering effective?
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