The 'Dreadful Visitation': Public health and public awareness in seventeenth-century London

Bulletin of the Medical Library Association

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 391-401

  Greenberg, Stephen J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

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ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH EDUCATION; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MORTALITY; PLAGUE; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLICATION; SOCIETY; UNITED KINGDOM;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LONDON; PLAGUE; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLISHING; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

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