Dread : how fear and fantasy have fueled epidemics from the black death to avian flu / Philip Alcabes.
The average individual is far more likely to die in a car accident than from a communicable disease ... yet we are still much more fearful of the epidemic. Even at our most level-headed, the thought of an epidemic can inspire terror. As Alcabes persuasively argues in Dread, our anxieties about epide...
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