Civilization and Disease (With a New Foreword)

Author/Contributor(s):	Sigerist, Henry E
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	07/15/2018
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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 impact that disease has had on societies throughout...