Infected: How Power, Politics, and Privilege Use Science Against the World's Most Vulnerable by Zaman, Muhammad H.

Infected: How Power, Politics, and Privilege Use Science Against the World's Most Vulnerable

A paradigm-shifting exploration of the politics of health around the world, by an award-winning scientist"Zaman's optimism ....
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Infected: How Power, Politics, and Privilege Use Science Against the World's Most Vulnerable by Zaman, Muhammad H.

Infected: How Power, Politics, and Privilege Use Science Against the World's Most Vulnerable

$29.99

Infected: How Power, Politics, and Privilege Use Science Against the World's Most Vulnerable

$29.99
Author: Muhammad H. Zaman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A paradigm-shifting exploration of the politics of health around the world, by an award-winning scientist

"Zaman's optimism . . . is welcome. . . . His sense of urgency is irresistible."
--The Wall Street Journal on Muhammad H. Zaman's The Biography of Resistance


Since the dawn of germ theory, from cholera to sleeping sickness, syphilis to COVID-19, the history of infectious diseases and related policies has shown us how vulnerable communities have been impacted in the name of research or disease control.


In Infected, award-winning scientist and author Muhammad H. Zaman navigates the exceptionalism of infection and tells the epic story of compromised doctors and administrators, and the heroes who challenged them. It is a tale describing how exclusionary immigration acts, the Tuskegee syphilis study and the Guatemala experiments, the development of biological weapons, the fake vaccination campaign in Pakistan, and the rhetoric around the recent pandemic are all parts of the same deeper story--one of infectious diseases intertwined with power and politics.


This is a story that continues today, in poor nations that have long been impacted by the foreign policies of the rich, and at borders, where asylum seekers are denied necessary medical treatment regardless of who is in power. Melding science and history, Infected presents infection as a key to understanding our recent past, present, and future.



Author: Muhammad H. Zaman
Publisher: New Press
Published: 11/18/2025
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.60w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781620977521


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/08/2025

About the Author
Muhammad H. Zaman is Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and International Health at Boston University, where he studies infectious disease dynamics and barriers to healthcare access among at-risk and vulnerable communities. He is also the inaugural director of the Center on Forced Displacement at Boston University. He has worked with communities in refugee camps, shelters, and urban informal settlements in over a dozen countries. He is the author of several books, including We Wait for a Miracle: Healthcare and the Forcibly Displaced, Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens, and Infected: How Power, Politics, and Privilege Use Science Against the World's Most Vulnerable (The New Press). He lives in Boston.


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