Disease: The Extraordinary Stories Behind History's Deadliest Killers
, by Dobson, Mary J.- ISBN: 9781847240149 | 1847240143
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 2/1/2008
Essays on 50 key diseases, plagues and epidemics function both as self contained mini histories of individual diseases and as part of a larger narrative chronicling the history of medicine. Includes timelines, boxed features on significant medical breakthroughs, fascinating case histories, anecdotes and medical curiosities. Contains 150 color photographs.