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The Cambridge World History of Human Disease

Series The Cambridge World History of Human Disease,
Volume 1

Edited by Kenneth F.
Kiple

Publication Date 1993

Hardback ISBN-10 0521332869

Hardback ISBN-13 9780521332866

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1017/CHOL9780521332866

Overview

Combining recent medical discoveries with historical and geographical
scholarship, this is the most comprehensive history of human disease since
August Hirsch's monumental Handbook of Geographical and Historical Pathology in
1880. Accessible to laypeople and specialists alike, The Cambridge World History
of Human Disease explores the patterns of disease throughout the world as well
as the variety of approaches that different medical traditions have used to
fight it. The volume traces the concept of disease as medicine developed from an
art to a science, then addresses the history of disease in each major world
region. The final and largest part offers the history and geography of each
significant human disease - both historical and contemporary - from AIDS to
yellow fever. A truly interdisciplinary history, it includes contributions from
over 160 medical and social scientists from across the globe. Together with The
Cambridge World History of Food (2000), The Cambridge World History of Human
Disease provides an extraordinary glimpse of what is known about human health as
the twenty-first century begins.

For more details of the
print book, and how to buy it online, please see The Cambridge World History of
Human Disease in the Cambridge University Press online catalogue.

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Table of Contents

The
Cambridge World History of Human Disease Vol. 1: The Cambridge World History of
Human Disease

Frontmatter

Introduction

Medicine
and Disease: An Overview

Changing
Concepts of Health and Disease

Medical
Specialties and Disease Prevention

Measuring
Health

The
History of Human Disease in the World Outside Asia

The
History of Human Disease in Asia

The
Geography of Human Disease

Major
Human Diseases Past and Present

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