EAN: 9780393541311

THE PANDEMIC CENTURY - MARK HONIGSBAUM KARTONIE...

How can we understand the COVID-19 pandemic? Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic 
scientists have dreamed of preventing such catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet
despite a century of medical progress  viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by
surprise  inciting panic and dominating news cycles. In The Pandemic Century  a lively account
of scares both infamous and less known  medical historian Mark Honigsbaum combines reportage
with the history of science and medical sociology to artfully reconstruct epidemiological
mysteries and the ecology of infectious diseases. We meet dedicated disease detectives 
obstructive or incompetent public health officials  and brilliant scientists often blinded by
their own knowledge of bacteria and viruses - and see how fear of disease often exacerbates
racial  religious  and ethnic tensions. Now updated with a new chapter and epilogue.

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