infectious disease must haves
Discover the essential infectious disease books every reader needs, from John M. Barry’s *The Great Influenza* to William McNeill’s *Plagues and Peoples*. Explore gripping histories, current events, and science on pandemics, plagues, and the hidden agents that shape our world.
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Plagues and Peoples
by William McNeill
The history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact—political, demographic, ecological, and psychological—of disease on cultures. "A book of the first importance, a truly revolutionary work." —The New Yorker From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, Plagues and Peoples is "a brilliantly conceptualized and challenging achievement" (Kirkus Reviews). Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter was added to this chronicle of events, which William McNeill explores in his introduction to this edition. Thought-provoking, well-researched, and compulsively readable, Plagues and Peoples is essential reading—that rare book that is as fascinating as it is scholarly, as intriguing as it is enlightening.
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Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?
by Robert S. Desowitz
INDICE: Preface. Tropical disease - as Anglo-American as the heart attack. Coming to the Americas: 50000 B.C. to 1942 A.D.- the humans. Coming to the Americas: 50000 B.C. to 1942 A.D.- the worms and germs. Who gave Pinta to the Santa Maria? 1492 to 1635 A.D. Ten little Indians and the there was one: 1492 to 1635 A.D. Coming to America 1638 to 1865: from Africa on the slave ship named desire. The germ's warfare discovered 1650 to 1865. Yelow Jak and the Cuban crisis: 1885 to 1900. Great works 1900 to 1925: Kid Rocke-feller and the Battlin...
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Plague
by Wendy Orent
Chronicles the history and mystery of several centuries of plague including bioweapons programs initiated by the former Soviet Union.
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The Great Influenza
by John M. Barry
#1 New York Times bestseller “Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history.”—Bill Gates "Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."—Chicago Tribune The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in the definitive account of the 1918 Flu Epidemic. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, The Great Influenza provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon. As Barry concludes, "The final lesson of 1918, a simple one yet one most difficult to execute, is that...those in authority must retain the public's trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one. Lincoln said that first, and best. A leader must make whatever horror exists concrete. Only then will people be able to break it apart." At the height of World War I, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease.
