The burdens of disease [electronic resource] : epidemics and human response in western history / J.N. Hays.

The western inheritance : Greek and Roman ideas about disease
Medieval disease and responses
The great plague pandemic
New diseases and transatlantic exchanges
Continuity and change : magic, religion, medicine, and science, 500-1700
Disease and the enlightenment
Cholera and sanitation
Tuberculosis and poverty
Disease, medicine, and western imperialism
The scientific view of disease and the triumph of professional medicine
The apparent end of epidemics
Disease and power.