Civilization and Disease

Henry Ernest Sigerist

Cornell University Press, 1943 - Medicine - 255 pages

"Based on a series of six Messenger lectures that I delivered at Cornell university ... 1940." "Notes" (bibliographical) at end of each chapter.

Contents

• INTRODUCTION: 1
• DISEASE AND ECONOMICS: 43
• DISEASE AND SOCIAL LIFE: 65
• DISEASE AND THE LAW: 87
• DISEASE AND HISTORY: 112
• DISEASE AND RELIGION: 131
• DISEASE AND PHILOSOPHY: 148
• DISEASE AND SCIENCE: 164
• DISEASE AND LITERATURE: 180
• DISEASE AND ART: 196
• tive offerings and Peruvian huacos 204 Medical illus: 208
• DISEASE AND MUSIC: 212
• CIVILIZATION AGAINST DISEASE: 229
• EPILOGUE: 243

Bibliographic information

• Title: Civilization and Disease; Messenger lectures on the evolution of civilization, Cornell University; Messenger lectures, Cornell University; Phoenix Books
• Author: Henry Ernest Sigerist
• Edition: 3
• Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1943
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Nov 10, 2008
• Length: 255 pages