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The history of disease is as old as mankind itself. The history of disease is as old as mankind itself. William McNeill, in his book Plagues and People, researched and described the effects of disease on the human race over the entire sweep of human history, from prehistory to the present, and the enormous role and impact disease played in shaping the history of all humanity.
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Norman, R.A., Paul, S.P. (2017). A History of Disease and Human Invention. In: The Last Natural Man. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42217-6_1
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