Contagion : perspectives from pre-modern societies / edited by Lawrence I. Conrad and Dominik Wujastyk.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Epidemics, weather, and contagion in traditional Chinese medicine / Shigehisa Kuriyama -- Dispersing the foetal toxin of the body : conceptions of smallpox aetiology in pre-modern China / Chia-Feng Chang -- The threatening stranger : Kewu in pre-modern Chinese paediatrics / Christopher Cullen -- Notions of "contagion" in classical Indian medical texts / Rahul Peter Das -- Does ancient Indian medicine have a theory of contagion? / Kenneth G. Zysk -- Old testament "leprosy", contagion and sin / Elinor Lieber -- Did the Greeks have a word for it? / Vivian Nutton -- A ninth-century Muslim scholar's discussion of contagion / Lawrence I. Conrad -- Contagion and leprosy : myth, ideas and evolution in medieval minds and societies / François-Olivier Touati.