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40 years after founding the Texas Playboys
ISBN13: 9780689806681 ISBN10: 068980668X Material Type: hardcover
ISBN13: 9783836563536 ISBN10: 3836563533 Material Type: hardcover
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Dread: How Fear and Fantasy have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to the Avian Flu Semantics (Books) 40 years after founding theThe 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 Philip Alcabes persuasively argues in Dread, our anxieties about epidemics are created not so much by the germ or microbe in questionor the actual risks of contagionbut by the unknown, the undesirable, and the