Combining recent medical discoveries with historical and geographical scholarship, this is the most comprehensive history of human disease since August Hirsch's monumental Handbook of Geographical and Historical Pathology in 1880. Accessible to laypeople and specialists alike, The Cambridge World History of Human Disease explores the patterns of disease throughout the world as well as the variety of approaches that different medical traditions have used to fight it. The volume traces the concept of disease as medicine developed from an art to a science, then addresses the history of disease in each major world region. The final and largest part offers the history and geography of each significant human disease - both historical and contemporary - from AIDS to yellow fever. A truly interdisciplinary history, it includes contributions from over 160 medical and social scientists from across the globe. Together with The Cambridge World History of Food (2000), The Cambridge World History of Human Disease provides an extraordinary glimpse of what is known about human health as the twenty-first century begins.

肯尼思.F.基普尔（Kenneth F.Kiplc）美国鲍灵格林州立大学历史系教授，《加勒比的奴隶：生物学史》（The Caribbc帆Slavc；A Biological History，1984）一书的作者，并且与Virginia King合著《散居西方的黑人的另一维：饮食、疾病和种族主义》（AnozAcrDimension to the Black Diasporcra Diet，Disease，and Racism,1981），这两部著作均由剑桥大学出版社出版。2000年，他与Kriemhild ConeOrnelas共同主编的《剑桥世界食物史》（The Cambridge World Historyof Food）——《剑桥世界人类疾病史》（TheCambridge World History of Human DisedJc）杰出的姊妹篇——出版问世。