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.基普爾（Kenneth F.Kiplc）美國鮑靈格林州立大學曆史係教授，《加勒比的奴隸：生物學史》（The Caribbc帆Slavc；A Biological History，1984）一書的作者，並且與Virginia King閤著《散居西方的黑人的另一維：飲食、疾病和種族主義》（AnozAcrDimension to the Black Diasporcra Diet，Disease，and Racism,1981），這兩部著作均由劍橋大學齣版社齣版。2000年，他與Kriemhild ConeOrnelas共同主編的《劍橋世界食物史》（The Cambridge World Historyof Food）——《劍橋世界人類疾病史》（TheCambridge World History of Human DisedJc）傑齣的姊妹篇——齣版問世。