Description:
Explores for the first time the social, cultural and medical history of human corpses and burials comparatively
Offers insight into an international selection of epidemics from the fourteenth century to the present day
Reveals findings of interest to historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and public health experts
Review Quotes: "The book ... is an essential and powerful work of compilation of diverse experiences related to epidemics, body dumping, fear of contamination, hasty burials, isolation, plague riots, all themes of the greatest relevance today. ... It is written in a language accessible to all audiences and achieves the goal of the series Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History to cut across conventional academic boundaries through stimulating interdisciplinary approaches. ... This book definitely held my interest." (Simone Rodrigues Pinto, Human Remains and Violence, Vol. 8 (1), April, 2022)