London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT
Evidence, Health & History Seminar Series
Organised by The History Group LSHTM*
Professor Samuel K Cohn, Jr.
University of Glasgow
Author of The Black Death Transformed (Arnold: 2002)
'The Epidemiology of the Black Death: Europe, 1348-1450'
Compelling evidence presented in this revolutionary account argues that the Black Death was almost any disease other than the rat-based bubonic plague whose bacillus was discovered in 1894. Since the late nineteenth century, the rat and flea have stood wrongly accused as the agents of transmission and historians and scientists have uncritically imposed the epidemiology of modern plague on the past
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Thursday, 5th December, 2002
5.15 pm in Room 5
Funded by the Wellcome Trust
Organiser: Kelly Loughlin, to be put on the mailing list contact [log in to unmask]
*Stuart Anderson, Luc Berlivet, Virginia Berridge (head of group), Kelly Loughlin, Lara Marks, Sarah Mars, Ornella Moscucci, Jennifer Stanton
Secretarial assistance to the seminar series provided by Ingrid James
Dr Kelly Loughlin
Lecturer
Health Promotion Research Unit
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street WC1E 7HT
0207 9272660
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http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/php/hpru/history.htm
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