In 2014, the world faces a global crisis as the Ebola epidemic threatens to spread from Western Africa across the planet. Even before recorded history began, di

Even before recorded history began, disease has plagued human civilisations, claiming more lives than natural disasters and warfare combined. Using an interdisc

The Routledge History of Disease draws on innovative scholarship in the history of medicine to explore the challenges involved in writing about health and disea

This book shows how bubonic plague and smallpox helped end the Hittite Empire, the Bronze Age in the Near East and later the Carthaginian Empire. The book will

The history of medicine and surgery is the history of human civilization. This book is intended for the busy medical student, surgical house officer, practicing