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Edited by Kenneth F. Kiple. 1176 pp., illustrated. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993. $150. ISBN 0-521-33286-9.

This massive book is the product of the Cambridge History and Geography of Human Disease Project, begun in 1985 under the direction of Kenneth F. Kiple. It is intended to replace August Hirsch's monumental but long-outdated Handbook of Geographical and Historical Pathology (London: New Sydenham Society, 1883-1886), published more than a century ago. Kiple has undertaken the herculean task of assembling the contributions of some 160 anthropologists, historians, demographers, and medical researchers to produce a comprehensive and authoritative encyclopedia of the history of disease.

The work is divided into eight parts. Part I consists of broad overviews of medicine and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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