Health and Disease in Human History
Subtitle: A Journal of Interdisciplinary History Reader
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: October 16, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780262182072
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Illness & addiction: social aspects; Public health & preventive medicine; World history; Epidemiology; Public Health (General); Medical / Nursing; Medical; General; History; Social History; History / General; Public Health; Diseases and history
First sentence: The Struggle to Survive For more than thirty years, interdisciplinary history has explicitly included the study of how groups and individuals in the past progressed despite disease, nutritional deficiency, poor sanitation, mean and menacing urban streets, fearsome and infectious sea voyages, and the many other morbid and mortal hazards of the last millennium.