Disease and the Modern World
Subtitle: 1500 To the Present Day (Themes in History (Polity Press).)
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: May 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780745628097
Subjects: History of medicine; History of specific subjects; Personal & public health; World history: c 1500 to c 1750; World history: c 1750 to c 1900; World history: from c 1900 -; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; Medical; Medical / Nursing; History; Diseases; Medicine
First sentence: Today, every country may be regarded as modern in its most fundamental respects.