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A vivid, sweeping, history of mankind’s battles with infectious disease that contextualizes the COVID-19 pandemic for readers of bestsellers Yuval Harari’s Sapiens and John Barry’s The Great Influenza.
About the author
Charles Kenny is a writer-researcher at the Center for Global Development and has worked on policy reforms in global health as well as UN peacekeeping and combating international financial corruption. Previously, he spent fifteen years as an economist at the World Bank, travelling the planet from Baghdad and Kabul to Brasilia and Beijing. He is the author of
The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease,
Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding and How We Can Improve the World Even More, and
The Upside of Down: Why the Rise of the Rest Is Great for the West. He earned a history degree at Cambridge and has graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins, the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and Cambridge.
Summary
A vivid, sweeping, history of mankind’s battles with infectious disease that contextualizes the COVID-19 pandemic for readers of bestsellers Yuval Harari’s Sapiens and John Barry’s The Great Influenza.
