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The Cambridge historical dictionary of disease
By Kiple, Kenneth F.
- ISBN
- 978-0-52153-026-2
- Publisher
- Cambridge, U.K. ; Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on October 15, 2003
Published in 1993, The Cambridge World History of Human Disease met with overwhelmingly favorable reviews. It was a massive work, with extensive articles written by international scholars. To make a large part of that work available to libraries with more restricted budgets, the editor has taken a slightly condensed version of Part 8, which consists of a history and description of 161 major diseases, and published it as a separate volume. Aimed at the lay reader, the alphabetical entries range from less than a page to approximately seven pages in ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
