Combining recent work in medicine with historical and geographical scholarship, this volume offers a comprehensive history of human disease, treating its manifestations throughout the world as well as the variety of approaches the different medical traditions have used to fight it. Each entry is divided into medical, historical, and geographical sections, and the range of diseases includes both historical and current afflictions.
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Combining recent work in medicine with historical and geographical scholarship, this volume offers a comprehensive history of human disease, treating its manifestations throughout the world as well as the variety of approaches the different medical traditions have used to fight it. Each entry is divided into medical, historical, and geographical sections, and the range of diseases includes both historical and current afflictions.
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Seller's Description:
This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 3050grams, ISBN: 9780521332866.
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Very good in very good jacket. Black and white graphs and diagrams throughout. 1176 pages. Thick 4to, dark blue boards with silver lettering, dust wrapper. New York: Cambridge University Press, (1994). A very good solid remainder copy, page edges foxed, in a very good dust wrapper. Combining recent work in medicine with historical and geographical scholarship, this volume offers a comprehensive history of human disease, treating the manifestations of disease throughout the world as well as the variety of approaches the different medical traditions have used to fight it.
