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- English
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Civilization and Disease
About this book
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 human history. Despite considerable advances in both medicine and historiography, Civilization and Disease remains a landmark work in the history of medicine and a fascinating look at, first, civilization as a factor in the genesis and spread of disease, and second, the effects of disease on such aspects of civilization as economics, social life, law, philosophy, religion, science, and the arts. In a new foreword written for this edition, Elizabeth Fee outlines Sigerist's life, works, and legacy as a historian, a teacher, and an advocate for universal health care, hailing Civilization and Disease as "an excellent introduction to Sigerist's work."
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Topic
MedicineSubtopic
World HistoryIndex
Abortion, 103f., 190
Accident, industrial, 96–100; insurance, 99
Accursinus, Magister, 214
Achondroplasia, 197
Ackerknecht, Erwin H., 146
Adenoids, 197
Agape, 16
Agestratus, 136
Agricola, Georg, 46
Ainsworth, William Harrison, 184
Air conditioning, 33
Alchemy, 157
Alcoholism, 15–18, 49, 190, 196, 209
Alexandria, 154, 166
Ambrosia, 136
Amman, I. C., 226
Amulets, 134, 142
Anatomia animata, 167
Anatomy, 165–172, 205ff.; pathological, 169f., 208
Anaximander, 148
Anaximenes, 148f.
Anemia, 185; pernicious, 235
Anesthesia, 172
Angina pectoris, 185
Anne, Queen of England, 127
Anthony, Saint, 142
Anthrax, 174
Antisepsis, 172
Antoninus, Roman senator, 135
Apollo, 134f., 142, 147
Apollonius of Citium, 207
Apollonius of Tyana, 140
Apulia, 216ff.
Aqueducts, 35f.
Archaeus, 155
Archiatri, 101
Archytas, 225
Argand, A., 33
Aristotle, 152, 159f., 168
Art, disease and, 196–211
Arthritis, 155, 237
Asclepius, 126, 135–138, 140, 146, 204f., 212
Asepsis, 28
Asklepiades, 154
Asklepieion, of Athens, 204f.
Astigmatism, 210
Astrology, 157
Atrium, 30
Aurelianus, Caelius, 213, 226
Auscultation, 170
Autopsy, 169, 171
Avicenna, 151
Babylonia, 15f., 68, 94f., 101, 132f.
Bacteria, 35, 79, 89, 112, 173f.
Bacteriology, 176
Baglivi, Giorgio, 164, 216ff., 227f.
Bantu, 11
Baroque, 24, 199, 203
Bashkirtseff, M...
Table of contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword: The Life and Work of Henry E. Sigerist
- Preface
- Introduction
- I. Civilization as a Factor in the Genesis of Disease
- II. Disease and Economics
- III. Disease and Social Life
- IV. Disease and the Law
- V. Disease and History
- VI. Disease and Religion
- VII. Disease and Philosophy 148
- VIII. Disease and Science
- IX. Disease and Literature
- X. Disease and Art
- XI. Disease and Music
- XII. Civilization against Disease
- Epilogue
- Index