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Examines the historical experience of health and illness from a population perspective. Seeks to reveal how the organization of societies facilitates or mitigates the production and transmission of disease: how do populations and groups of individuals go about securing their health? Concentrates primarily on the modern world (i.e., 1750 onwards) and omits detailed examination of public health in antiquity and the middle ages, although these time periods are alluded to frequently. Adopts a thematic rather than chronological structure so that comparisons can be made across the centuries and between different parts of the globe.