Fungal Disease in Britain and the United States 1850-2000

Aya Homei is a Wellcome Trust Fellow at the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester, UK. She is currently working on a new book, Family Planning, Health Promotion and Global Medicine, 1945-1995: The Activities of Japanese Health Campaigners around the World (forthcoming).Michael Worboys is Director of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK. He works on the history of infectious diseases and has recently published, with Neil Pemberton, Rabies in Britain: Dogs, Disease and Culture, 1830-2000 (Palgrave 2012).

"The structure of the book is well-crafted, framed around particular conditions caused by fungi, but moving chronologically forward, with references to diseases discussed in previous chapters continuing, demonstrating the developments in treatment for fungal diseases as a whole. ... Fungal Disease is a significant introduction to the history of medical mycology with a variety of case studies in two nations. The authors provide strong arguments for the necessity of including fungal diseases within the wider historiography of medicine." (Rosemary Wall, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 90 (4), 2016)

• This book is open access under a CC BY license.   Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Ringworm: A Disease of Schools and Schooling 2. Athlete's Foot: A Disease of Fitness and Hygiene 3. Candida: A Disease of Antibiotics 4. Endemic Mycoses, Mycotoxins and Allergies: Diseases of Social Change 5. Aspergillosis: A Disease of Medical Progress Conclusion