Mark Harrison is Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine and Reader in the History of Medicine, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Green College, Oxford.

Preface.

Introduction - Disease and Modernity.

Chapter 1 - Disease and Medicine before 1500.

Chapter 2 - Early Modern Europe.

Chapter 3 - Disease and Social Order: The Enlightenment and its
Legacy.

Chapter 4 - The World Beyond Europe.

Chapter 5 - Disease in an Age of Commerce and
Industry.

Chapter 6 - The Individual and the State.

Chapter 7 - Disease, War and Modernity.

Chapter 8 - Health for All: Affluence, Poverty and Disease
Since 1945.

Glossary

'Harrison has done an especially nice job in his treatment of major
historiographical trends and debates, sketching them in with a
light touch, and offering compelling and clear examples of the
impact and limitations of different approaches. For this, all of us
teaching (and indeed researching) the history of medicine should be
thoroughly grateful.' --Roberta Bivins, Cardiff University,
British Society for the History of Science

"This thoroughly researched and thought-provoking book is an
easy and enjoyable read...an excellent introductory text on the
history of disease and medicine." --Choice, February 2005

"Harrison's book is a masterful mix of narrative and
historiographic analysis. his thesis about disease and the modern
state, as well as the clarity of his text, will make this an
accessible book even for beginner students, yet the breadth of his
research and his explication of debates will make it useful to even
the most advanced student and scholar." --History: Reviews of New
Books, Winter 2005

"In short, this is a well-crafted and well-written synthesis
that meets the goal of accessibility for undergraduate
courses."

Bulletin of the History of Medicine