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Index
Cover
THEMES IN HISTORY SERIES
Title page
Copyright page
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Disease and Medicine before 1500
Disease in the Western medical tradition
Medical practice and medical institutions
The world the plague made
2 Early Modern Europe
The ‘Great Pox’: syphilis
Plague
Medicine and the ‘new science’
3 Disease and Social Order: The Enlightenment and its Legacy
Disease prevention: public and private spheres
War, disease and medicine
The retreat of plague
4 The World beyond Europe
New World peoples, Old World diseases
The slave trade and the Atlantic exchange
Disease among Europeans
5 Disease in an Age of Commerce and Industry
Smallpox and the vaccination controversies
Quarantine, commerce and political economy
Cholera and the tensions of modernization: the epidemics of 1830–1832
Urban disease and sanitary reform
6 The Individual and the State
Disease and scientific medicine
From consumption to tuberculosis
The third plague pandemic: an imperial crisis
Tropical diseases
Microbes and migrants
Mortality decline
7 Disease, War and Modernity
Health and medicine in an age of total war
The influenza pandemic of 1918–1919
Typhus
Malaria
Sexually transmitted diseases
8 Health for All? Affluence, Poverty and Disease since 1945
Disease in affluent societies
Disease, poverty and environment in the developing world
Epilogue
Glossary
Select Bibliography
Index
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