Whether in popular media or scientific literature, plagues are currently a topic of tremendous interest and anxiety. Through an excellent range of case studies,
An expert legal review of the US government’s response to epidemics through history—with larger conclusions about COVID-19, and reforms needed for the next
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This “timely, topical, informative [and] exceptionally well written” history explores the impact of disease from prehistoric plagues to Covid-19 (Midwest Bo
The history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact—political, demographic, ecological