Epidemiology
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Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe 2014 Ebola epidemic demonstrated the power of pandemics and their ability not only to destroy lives locally but also to capture the imagination and terrify the world. Christian W. McMillen provide… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: McMillen, Christian W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199340072
- Language: English
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Epidemics: The Impact of Germs and Their Power Over Humanity
$21.99 Add to cartUnlike other books on epidemics, which either focus on the science behind how microbes cause disease or tell first-person accounts of one particular disease, Epidemics: The Impact of Germs and Their P
- Author: Loomis, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1684426731
- Language: English
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Chimp & the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest
$15.99 Add to cartThe real story of AIDS–how it originated with a virus in a chimpanzee, jumped to one human, and then infected more than 60 million people–is very different from what most of us think we know. Recent
- Author: Quammen, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0393350843
- Language: English
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Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
$20.00 Add to cart“All disasters are in some sense man-made.”
Setting the annus horribilis of 2020 in historical perspective, Niall Ferguson explains why we are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters. Disaste- Author: Ferguson, Niall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0593297393
- Language: English
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Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
$19.95 Read more“Maladies of Empire has a captivating writing style, is exhaustively researched, and is persuasive in argumentation. Jim Downs has written a game-changing book.”–Deirdre Cooper Owens, author of Medic
- Author: Downs, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 067429386X
- Language: English
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Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History
$30.00 Read moreHarvard Public Health Magazine, Best Public Health Books and Journalism of 2022
The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its modern reemergence that now- Author: Krishnan, Vidya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1541768469
- Language: English
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
$21.99 Add to cartThe next big human pandemic–the next disease cataclysm, perhaps on the scale of AIDS or the 1918 influenza–is likely to be caused by a new virus coming to humans from wildlife. Experts call such an
- Author: Quammen, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0393346617
- Language: English
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Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World’s Worst Diseases
$24.95 Add to cartFrom the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks–how they start, how they spread, the science that l… [more below]
- Author: Kang, Lydia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1523513292
- Language: English
