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A New Chapter in Medical History
- Journal of Interdisciplinary History
- The MIT Press
- Volume 39, Number 3, Winter 2009
- pp. 349-359
- Review
- Additional Information
Once the domain of physicians intent on recording and memorializing professional achievements, the history of medicine has become fully interdisciplinary, encompassing myriad topics. Oddly, however, the problems that actually generate medicine, the diseases themselves, have—with such notable exceptions as plague, cholera, smallpox, tuberculosis, and hiv/aids —attracted relatively little attention until recently. Disease history now appears ready to enter a new phase.