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Name: Insects, Hygiene and History: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN-13: 9781474241762
ISBN-10: 147424176X
Addition ISBN: 1474241751, 9781474241755
Author(s): James Ronald Busvine, Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, Copyright: 2015
Busvine’s introductory account of the evolutionary histories of insects and mites leads on to a fascinating study of human reactions to ectoparasites. It shows how the extent of man’s curiosity about them and references to their prevalence provide a continuous commentary both on the history of biological science from Aristotle to the present day and on the modes and manners of ages past. Subjects of ribald verse, quack medicine and morbid imagination as well as literary symbols of piety, love and human insignificance, this is also the history of how medicine discovered that ectoparasites acted as transmitters for epidemic diseases.