title: History of disease and the longue durée.
abstract: This paper summarizes Grmek's theoretical contribution to history of disease and explores to what extent the longue durée could still be a useful concept in order to better understand past perceptions of, and reactions to, diseases. The case of the medical responses to epidemic disease in pre-industrial Europe is synthetically expounded in order to illustrate this issue.
authors.affiliation: Department of History of Science, IMF-CSIC, Egipcíaques, 15 08001 Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Jon
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Arrizabalaga
mesh_terms: D002835:Christianity / Q000266:history; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000266:history; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000266:history; D004813:Epidemiology / Q000266:history*; D005060:Europe; D005843:Geography / Q000266:history; D006663:Historiography; D006666:History of Medicine; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D010686:Philosophy, Medical / Q000266:history*; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D012586:Science / Q000266:history; D012962:Sociology, Medical / Q000266:history