Author: Sigerist, Henry Ernest [1891-1957]
Title: Civilization and Disease
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, 1945. orig. cloth. 23x15cm, xi,1(29)255 pp, Danish medical historian Eigil Snorrasson's copy, with his extensive pencilled underlings throughout text.. 23pp photoplates. Rubbed. Inked noted to front fixed flyleaf. Good. ¶ Contents: Civilization as a Factor in the Genesis of Disease; Disease and Economics; Disease and Social Life; Disease and the Law; Disease and History; Disease and Religion; Disease and Philosophy; Disease and Science;Disease and Literature; Disease and Art; Disease and Music; Civilization Against Disease; Epilogue.

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