The past: human populations prior to sedentary life styles -- Origins of the urban death penalty: civilized diseases -- The first rural-urban turnaround -- Infectious diseases and medical traditions in the levant -- Emergence of the enlightenment -- Advancement of science and medicine -- Inoculation and infectious disease -- A review of the urban death penalty -- Postlogue.
Summary
The past: human populations prior to sedentary life styles -- Origins of the urban death penalty: civilized diseases -- The first rural-urban turnaround -- Infectious diseases and medical traditions in the levant -- Emergence of the enlightenment -- Advancement of science and medicine -- Inoculation and infectious disease -- A review of the urban death penalty -- Postlogue.