Book ID: CBB001510060

More Than Hot: A Short History of Fever (2014)

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Hamlin, Christopher S. (Author)


Johns Hopkins University Press


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: xii + 383 pp.; index; bibl.
Language: English

This 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

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Review Priscilla Wald (2016) Review of "More Than Hot: A Short History of Fever". Social History of Medicine (pp. 663-664). unapi

Review Anne Hardy (2015) Review of "More Than Hot: A Short History of Fever". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 890-891). unapi

Review Katherine Arner (2016) Review of "More Than Hot: A Short History of Fever". Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science (p. 66). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Cerchiai Manodori Sagredo, Claudia
Muzzarelli, Sonia
Alibrandi, Rosamaria
Geddes da Filicaia, Marco
Tina Travagliante
Maria Paola Zanoboni
Concepts
Disease and diseases
Medicine and politics
Medicine and society
Public health
Medicine
Medicine and culture
Time Periods
Ancient
19th century
20th century
Early modern
Medieval
Modern
Places
Europe
Sicily
Italy
Great Britain
Middle and Near East
London (England)
Institutions
Catholic University of Ireland (Dublin)
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
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