Harrison, Mark, 1964-

Disease and the modern world : 1500 to the present day / Mark Harrison. - Cambridge ; Malden, MA. : Polity, 2004. - 270 p. ; 24 cm. - Themes in history (Polity Press) Themes in history series . - Themes in history (Polity Press) .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-260) and index.

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.

0745628095 0745628109 (pbk.)

2003017371


Medicine--History.
Diseases--History.

R131 / .HAR 2004

610/.9/03