The First Horseman by John Aberth
This text intends to emphasis to students that widespread, deadly disease is not a distant historical phenomenon, but a continuing threat to humanity. It explains the economic, political, social, and psychological problems that deadly diseases have caused in our past and the challenges we face currently and in the future. The importance of this study is emphasized by the author's last line in the text, The history of disease will go on, despite once confident predictions of an end to epidemics in our times, and those who now wage the heroic struggle to find elusive cures to our new plagues may find that they have more to learn from the past than had once been thought.John Aberth was awarded his Ph.D. He holds a master's degree in medieval history from Cambridge University in England and teaches history at a number of colleges in Vermont. He is the author of the Routledge book From the Edge of the Apocalypse: Facing Hunger, War, Disease, and Death in the Later Middle Ages.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780131893412 |
| ISBN 10 | 0131893416 |
| Title | The First Horseman |
| Author | John Aberth |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pearson Education (US) |
| Year published | 2006-04-05 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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