Mark Harrison

Disease and the Modern World

1500 to the Present Day

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'Mark Harrison's book illuminates the threats posed by infectious diseases since 1500. He places these diseases within an international perspective, and demonstrates the relationship between European expansion and changing epidemiological patterns. The book is a significant introduction to a fascinating subject. ' Gerald N.

Produktdetails

• Themes in History
• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9780745628103
• ISBN-10: 0745628109
• Artikelnr.: 13600640

Autorenporträt

Mark Harrison is Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine and Reader in the History of Medicine, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Green College, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.
Introduction - Disease and Modernity.
Chapter 1 - Disease and Medicine before 1500.
Chapter 2 - Early Modern Europe.
Chapter 3 - Disease and Social Order: The Enlightenment and its Legacy.
Chapter 4 - The World Beyond Europe.
Chapter 5 - Disease in an Age of Commerce and Industry.
Chapter 6 - The Individual and the State.
Chapter 7 - Disease, War and Modernity.
Chapter 8 - Health for All: Affluence, Poverty and Disease Since 1945.
Glossary