| Contents |
The Western inheritance: Greek and Roman ideas about disease -- Medieval diseases and responses -- The Great Plague pandemic -- New diseases and transatlantic exchanges -- Continuity and change: magic, religion, medicine, and science, 500-1700 -- Disease and the Enlightenment -- Cholera and sanitation -- Tuberculosis and poverty -- Disease, medicine, and Western Imperialism -- The scientific view of disease and the triumph of professional medicine -- The apparent end of epidemics -- Disease and power. |
| Local note | Laupus-Copy 2 is in the Shingleton collection. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-344) and index. |
| Acquisitions source |
Laupus- E. Daniel Shingleton Public Health Collection |
| Acquisitions source |
Laupus- Robert W. Cihak History of Medicine Collection |
| LCCN | 97039328 |
| ISBN | 0813525276 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0813525284 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
