… THIS BOOK BEGAN with a conference on the history of disease held in 1988 at the College
of … The nineteenth century may have changed the style and intellectual content of individual …

… disorders seem to run in families, your chance of succumbing depends in some cases on
whether this history is … show clear differences, and look for altered patterns of gene expression. …

… " The Rise and Fall of Epidemic Disease," the rise of new diseases such as AIDS and the …
of diseases such as anthrax have changed the way we perceive infectious disease. With major …

… disease pool. The distinctive human disease pool is a product of our distinctive ecological
history… And increasingly, we have the tools to probe that history and understand humanity’s …

… characters with psychological illnesses unknown at the time … represents symptoms of diseases
whose identities we later … phenomena were part of the history behind the development of …

… But on this account, for a clinical history to emerge would … they might be suffering from
particular sorts of mental illness. … in this paper have been altered to preserve anonymity and …

… disease seem novel. But assumptions about the existence of particular diseases have a long
history… Such innovations have even altered the ecology and manifestations of disease: after …

… , technology and a reconfiguration of disease concepts changed medical attitudes to anatomy.
The … Names and concepts of diseases changed from being subjective symptoms, such as …

… for a history full of profound silences, omissions, and amnesias. Now, however, under the
greatly altered … The past models of the disorder analyzed in this book were derived from many …

… Yet these changes have not altered the central argument of the book. The history of malaria
has been driven by the interplay of social, biological, economic, and environmental forces. …