num_pages: 1200
description: Combining recent medical discoveries with historical and geographical scholarship, The Cambridge World History of Human Disease traces the concept of disease throughout history and in each major world region. It offers the history and geography of each significant human disease--both historical and contemporary--from AIDS to yellow fever, and touches on the variety of approaches that different medical traditions have used to fight disease. Accessible to laypeople and specialists alike, The Cambridge World History of Human Disease offers an extraordinary glimpse of what is known about human health as the twenty-first century begins. This important book is now being reissued with a fresh new jacket design.
language: English
title: The Cambridge World History of Human Disease
titlecomplete: The Cambridge World History of Human Disease
genres: Medicine, History, Nonfiction, Biology
ratings_count: 10
publisher: Cambridge University Press