Buy this book on-line KIPLE, KENNETH F - Edited by: : PLAGUE, POX & PESTILENCE: Disease in HistoryLONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON 1997. ISBN 0297822543.
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Although the invention of agriculture was the most important event in the history of civilisation,it was a disaster for human health.Hunter-gatherers,frequently on the move,were few in number,ate a great variety of foods,and seldom paused in one place long enough to allow diseases to flourish
in contaminated water supplies or waste areas.But with the farmers who emerged in the Neolithic revolution,all this was turned upside-down.
People settled,living cheek by jowl with their newly domesticated animals; water teemed with pathogens; waste piled up; nutrition deteriorated as diets focused on just a few items.Diseases became rampant. Yet despite all of this populations swelled as children became important - as field hands.
The build-up of large urban populations bred new and ever more deadly diseases. Restless humans - marauders,missionaries, merchants - carried these strains across the world to communities never before exposed to them.Death on epic scales
ensued.The plague,scrofula,leprosy - all these flourished in the early modern world.
War was a harbinger of death in more ways than the traditional - wherever soldiers were drawn together in large groups,the tinder for an epidemic conflagration was sparked.Some diseases in particular are linked to war: typhus,because it killed more soldiers and sailors than soldiers and sailors have killed one another; cholera, which is carried by contaminated water; scurvy,'the sailors disease'; and syphilis, which burst upon the world from a battlefield.
In this extraordinary illustrated survey of disease in history,Kenneth Kiple,editor of 'The Cambridge World History of Human Disease',has brought together a team of experts to show for the first time how our world is the product of disease - and its eradication.
Kenneth K. Kiple is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History at Bowling Green State University, and the Editor of Cambridge History and Culture of Human Nutrition Project.
He specializes in biological and medical history,and in particular their effects on slavery in the New World.
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