The Routledge History of Disease draws on innovative scholarship in the history of medicine to explore the challenges involved in writing about health and disea

The Routledge History of Poverty, c.1450–1800 is a pioneering exploration of both the lives of the very poorest during the early modern period, and of the vas

Disease and Medicine in World History is a concise introduction to diverse ideas about diseases and their treatment throughout the world. Drawing on case studie

Ideas about the transmission of disease have long formed the core of modern biology and medicine. Heredity and Infection examines their development over the las

Disease and crime are increasingly conflated in the contemporary world. News reports proclaim "epidemics" of crime, while politicians denounce terrorism as a le