Sheldon Watts (Egypt American University in Cairo)

Disease and Medicine in World History

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on case studies from ancient Egypt to present-day America, Asia and Europe, Sheldon Watts presents this concise introduction to diverse ideas about diseases and their treatment throughout the world.

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Produktdetails

• Themes in World History
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 264g
• ISBN-13: 9780415278171
• ISBN-10: 0415278171
• Artikelnr.: 21363223

Autorenporträt

Sheldon Watts is a visiting professor of history at the American University in Cairo. He is the author of Epidemics and History: Disease, Power and Imperialism (Yale, 1997).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Sickness and health
a global concern
2 Before the advent of acute epidemic diseases. Pharaonic Egypt and the pre-conquest New World: extinct societies
3 Pluralism in ancient Greece
4 The evolution of medical systems in the Middle East c. 632 CE to modern times
5 Health and disease on the Indian subcontinent before 1869
6 Medicine and disease in China: concepts and practices from c. 1900 BCE to 1840 CE
7 The globalization of disease after 1450
8 Medicine and disease in the West
1050-1840
9 The birth of modern scientific medicine: the German lands contrasted with the United Kingdom and the British in India
10 Health and medicine in the world
1940 to the present
Bibliography
Index