Disease and medicine in world history /
Watts, S. J.(Sheldon J.)
New York ; London : Routledge,
2003.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sickness and health, a global concern -- Before the advent of acute epidemic diseases: pharaonic Egypt and the preconquest New World: extinct societies -- Pluralism in ancient Greece -- The evolution of medical systems in the Middle East c. 632 CE to modern times -- Health and healing on the Indian subcontinent before 1869 -- Medicine and disease in China: concepts and practices from c. 1900 BCE to 1840 CE -- The globalization of disease after 1450 -- Medicine and disease in the West, 1054-1840 -- The birth of modern scientific medicine: the German lands contrasted with the United Kingdom and the British in India -- Health and medicine in the world, 1940 to the present.
Medicine
Diseases and history.