Chronicles from past Plague Years
| Autor: | Fensch, Thomas |
|---|---|
| EAN: | 9781737999850 |
| Sachgruppe: | Medizin |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 400 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 08.11.2021 |
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This book begins with the Bubonic Plague that hit London in 1665-1666, that Daniel Defoe described in A Journal of the Plague Year -- written so many years after the actual event. The Spanish Flu of 1918-1919 has been described by a variety of authors, including Katherine Anne Porter and Thomas Wolfe. More recently, AIDS, Ebola and Covid-19 have been covered, as journalists would day, by Randy Shilts, Richard Preston and Lawrence Wright. There are graphic and horrific stories here about illnesses and deaths during plagues in the oast; and in the case of Covid-19 -- the plague that is with us still
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