The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris by Honigsbaum, Mark

The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris

How can we understand the COVID-19 pandemic? Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed...
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Author: Mark Honigsbaum
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The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris by Honigsbaum, Mark

The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris

€29,21

The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris

€29,21
Author: Mark Honigsbaum
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.



Author: Mark Honigsbaum
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 06/16/2020
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780393541311

About the Author
Honigsbaum, Mark: - Mark Honigsbaum is a medical historian, journalist, and author of five books including The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris and The Fever Trail: In Search of the Cure for Malaria. He is currently a lecturer at City University of London.

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