The burdens of disease: epidemics and human response in western history

The Western inheritance: Greek and Roman ideas about disease

Medieval diseases 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.