Background and Context

The Oxford research encyclopedia of global public health offers numerous articles reviewing specialized topics.  Each article has sections on Discussion of the Literature and on Primary Sources, together with a Further Reading bibliography and footnotes.

Encyclopedia of global health, ed. by Yawei Zhang. Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; London : SAGE, 2008.1 online resource (4 v. (xli, 1938, I-64 p.)) 

Cambridge historical dictionary of disease (Harvard Login), ed. by Kenneth F. Kiple. Cambridge; NY: Cambridge University Press, 2003, 412 p.

Cambridge world history of human disease (Harvard Login) ed. by Kenneth F. Kiple et al. Cambridge; NY: Cambridge University Press, 1993, 1176 p.

A companion to medical anthropology, edited by Merrill Singer, Pamela I. Erickson, César E. Abadía-Barrero. 2nd edition. Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2022, 470 pages
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Health and illness : a cross-cultural encyclopedia, by David Levinson, Laura Gaccione. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 1997,  253 p. 
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