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By Sheldon Watts. 400 pp. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1997. $35. ISBN 0-300-07015-2.

In ancient Greece, the great medical teacher Hippocrates taught his students that medicine may consist of many things, but it is always concerned with the patient, the physician, and the disease. In the past two decades, spurred on, no doubt, by a worldwide AIDS epidemic that caught the Western world unprepared to acknowledge that infections can still be such threats to our well-being, the history of disease has become a veritable scholarly industry. Epidemics have always struck terror and have always been of dramatic interest.

Nancy Gallagher, a historian of medicine and public health in Tunisia, described three main historical . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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