Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-260) and index.
Contents:
Disease and medicine before 1500 -- Early modern Europe -- Disease and social order: the enlightenment and its legacy -- The world beyond Europe -- Disease in an age of commerce and industry -- The individual and the state -- Disease, war and modernity -- Health for all? affluence, poverty and disease since 1945.
Series:
Themes in history (Polity Press) Themes in history series
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