| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.5

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Comparative/World

J. N. Hays. The Burdens of Disease: Epidemics and Human Response in Western History. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. 1998. Pp. xi, 361. Cloth $50.00, paper $24.00.

The social history of medicine has grown over the last fifteen years to become one of the liveliest of history's subject areas. Characterized by an immense eclecticism, it has widened the scope of an earlier whiggish history of medicine to encompass the myriad ways in which health, illness, and medicine affect society and are affected by it. Historical demography, environmental history, history from below, women's history, the histories of magic, religion, institutions, ideas, and politics have all been integrated into the narratives of recent social history of medicine. New research sites such as the colonies and the laboratory have added extra dimensions to the subject. . . .

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