More Than Hot: A Short History of Fever

A conceptual and cultural history of fever, a universally experienced and sometimes feared symptom.

Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL

Christopher Hamlin’s magisterial work engages a common experience—fever—in all its varieties and meanings. Reviewing the representations of that condition from ancient times to the present, More Than Hot is a history of the world through the lens of fever. The book deals with the expression of fever, with the efforts of medical ...