Civilization and Disease / / Henry E. Sigerist.
Originally published in 1943, Civilization and Disease was based on a series of lectures that the medical historian Henry E. Sigerist delivered at Cornell University in 1940. Now back in print, the book is a wide-ranging account of the importance of social factors on health and illness and the impac...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Edition: | with a new foreword |
Language: | English |
Series: | Messenger Lectures
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (300 p.) :; 52 b&w halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Foreword: The Life and Work of Henry E. Sigerist
- Preface
- Introduction
- Civilization as a Factor in the Genesis of Disease
- Disease and Economics
- Disease and Social Life
- Disease and the Law
- Disease and History
- Disease and Religion
- Disease and Philosophy
- Disease and Science
- Disease and Literature
- Disease and Art
- Disease and Music
- Civilization Against Disease
- Epilogue
- Index