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.