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

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2009], ©2009.

xii, 374 pages ; 24 cm

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.