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Additional Reading
Various aspects of disease are discussed in Jonathan Phillips, Paul Murray, and Paul Kirk (eds.), The Biology of Disease, 2nd ed. (2001). David O. Slauson and Barry J. Cooper, Mechanisms of Disease: A Textbook of Comparative General Pathology, 3rd ed. (2002), provides a fundamental overview of the mechanisms of diseases, often at the molecular level. Kenrad E. Nelson and Carolyn F. Masters Williams, Infectious Disease Epidemiology: Theory and Practice, 3rd ed. (2014), offers a comprehensive view of infectious disease and its relationship with public health.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Modified link of Web site: College of Southern Idaho Pressbooks Network - Introduction to Allied Health - What is a disease? | Sep 26, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Nature of the Disease. | Jan 23, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - The Philosopher's Zone - What is a disease? | Dec 12, 2025 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Oct 30, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: College of Southern Idaho Pressbooks Network - Introduction to Allied Health - What is a disease? | Jul 09, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Better Health Channel - Illness - tips to help you recover. | Mar 24, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BMJ Open - What is a disease? Perspectives of the public, health professionals and legislators. | Sep 17, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The University of Hawaiʻi Pressbooks - Human Nutrition: 2020 Edition - Nutrition, Health and Disease. | May 07, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Biology LibreTexts - Disease. | Jun 30, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Concepts of Disease and Health. | Apr 04, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: World Health Organization - Disease information. | Mar 06, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: World Health Organization - Europe - Disease Prevention. | Mar 06, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Definitions of Symptoms for Reportable Illnesses. | Mar 06, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: Science Museum - Brought To Life - Diseases and Epidemics. | Jan 02, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Health, Disease, and Illness as Conceptual Tools. | May 31, 2018 | ||
| Media added. | May 18, 2017 | ||
| Bibliography revised and updated. | Apr 10, 2017 | ||
| Media added. | Apr 10, 2017 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised and updated. | Apr 10, 2017 | ||
| New illustration added. | Jan 15, 2009 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Jun 25, 2008 | ||
| Article revised. | Mar 02, 2001 | ||
| Article revised. | Sep 01, 1999 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 26, 1999 |
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