DISEASE AND HISTORY: THIRD EDITION
Book ID/图书代码： 00530014B73177
English Summary/英文概要： A newly revised edition of an established classic in the history of medicine.
Arising from collaboration between a doctor and a historian, Disease and History offers the general reader a wide-ranging and most accessible account of some of the ways in which disease has left its often dramatic mark on the past.
It reviews, for example, the impact made by bubonic plague and other infections upon the ancient and medieval worlds; the likely role of syphilis in the careers of Henry VIII and Ivan the Terrible; the significance of smallpox for the conquest of Mexico; and the contribution of typhus to Napoleon’s downfall and of haemophilia to the collapse of Tsarist rule in Russia. Other topics surveyed include the influence of tropical diseases in the history of the colonization of Africa, and the global death-toll taken by the so-called ‘Spanish’ influenza of 1918-9.
The authors show how successive eras have registered some progress against pestilence, even while also experiencing confrontation with new and often unforeseen threats. Thus the final section of the book highlights how this field of history serves to illuminate many of the current problems now facing a world where disease – especially when combined with war, famine, and ecological recklessness – presents an ongoing challenge to human survival.
‘A study whose outstanding virtues are economy, clarity and readability.’New Statesman
‘A welcome updating and careful revision of one of the pioneering accounts of the social history of medicine.’
Roy Porter, Professor of the Social History of Medicine, UCL
‘Fascinating and highly recommended.’ Library Journal
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《疾病改变历史》是一位医生和一位历史学家合作的成果，它给广大读者提供了丰富且易于理解的知识，向我们讲述疾病是如何在过去留下深刻的印记。例如，腺鼠疫和其他疾病对古代和中世纪世界造成的影响；亨利八世和“恐怖伊凡”的梅毒也有同样的后果；天花对征服墨西哥的影响；霍乱对拿破仑大军的覆灭和血友病对俄国沙皇统治垮台所起的作用。讨论的其他话题还有热带病在非洲殖民史上的作用，以及1918—1919年所谓“西班牙流感”造成全球死亡人数的剧增。两位作者介绍了各个时代针对疫病所取得的一些进步，揭示了伴随而来的不可预见的新威胁。书中的结论部分重点说明了历史这一领域是如何探讨现实世界面临的许多问题，在当今世界，疾病（与战争、饥馑和生态危机一起）对人类的生存不断提出挑战。(DB)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 弗雷德里克·F.卡特赖特，曾为伦敦大学国王医学院医学史系主任，英国科学院院士，麦克阿瑟基金获得者。主要著作有：《医学社会史》《现代外科学的发展》。
迈克尔·比迪斯，英国雷丁大学荣退历史教授，曾为人文和社会科学系主任。两位作者分别于1980—1981年和1994—1998年出任伦敦药剂师协会医学史分会主席。
The late Frederick Cartwright headed the Department of the History of Medicine at King’s College Medical School, London.
Michael Biddiss is Emeritus Professor of History and former Dean of Letters and Social Sciences at The University of Reading. Each was President of the Faculty of the History of Medicine at the Society of Apothecaries of London, during 1980-1 and 1994-8 respectively.
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