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Publisher
ECCO
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A vibrant cultural history investigating the tangled and complex history of pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon Schama. A vibrant cultural history investigating the tangled and complex history of pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon Schama."--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as it swept through American society in 2020, and of how the recovery will unfold in the coming years. Drawing on momentous (yet dimly remembered) historical epidemics, contemporary analyses, and cutting-edge research from a range of scientific disciplines, explores what it means to live in a time of plague--an experience that is paradoxically uncommon to the vast majority of humans...
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Series
Language
English
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"Plagues upon the Earth is a history of human civilization and the germs that have shaped its course. At every stage in our species' past, micro-organisms have had macro-effects on the development of human societies. Kyle Harper proposes the first history of human disease to make full use of a radical new source of evidence: pathogen genomes as a biological archive and window into prehistoric times. We can now begin to reconstruct the natural history...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on his insider access to the drama's unfolding, including conversations with the world's top public health experts, the CNN chief medical correspondent and America's frontline COVID-19 health journalist shares what he's learned and how we can prepare for--or prevent--the next pandemic.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
America is in trouble--at the mercy of a puzzling pathogen. That ordinarily wouldn't lead to catastrophe, thanks to modern medicine, but there's just one problem: the government supply of Dormigen, the silver bullet of pharmaceuticals, has been depleted just as demand begins to spike. Set in the near future, The Rationing centers around a White House struggling to quell the crisis--and control the narrative --
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