Contents: 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.
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Disease and medicine in world history by Sheldon J. Watts. ISBN 0415278171. Published by Routledge in 2003. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
