A Brief History of Disease Hysteria

A Brief History of Disease Hysteria
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Bruce Davidson
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For the past half-century or more, manufactured scares have been a recurrent part of life. Every year, a very small number of people are killed (usually only one) or injured by bears in Hokkaido, Japan. However, the news media invariably play up these incidents.

Bruce Davidson
Bruce Davidson
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Bruce W. Davidson is professor of humanities at Hokusei Gakuen University in Sapporo, Japan.
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