Historians have long been wise to disease as a factor in historical events and developments. More recently, scholars have begun to focus on how conceptions and understandings of disease intersect with issues of culture, politics, race, gender, and class. In this episode, Edna Bonhomme discusses some cultural and social history approaches to the topic of disease through the lens of plague in the eighteenth-century Mediterranean, and explains some of the issues relating to disease surrounding Napoleon's invasion of Egypt.