Disease and the Modern World
Subtitle: 1500 to the Present Day (Themes in History (Polity Press).)
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: May 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780745628103
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; DISEASES AND HISTORY; MEDICINE_HISTORY; Medical / History; History; General; Diseases; Medicine
First sentence: In order to understand the significance of the changes wrought by the advent of modernity during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, we must look briefly at the world they transformed.