Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris With a New Chapter and Updated Epilogue on Coronavirus

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 we see how fear of disease often exacerbates racial, religious and ethnic tensions.Now updated with a new chapter and epilogue on Coronavirus.A Financial Times Best Health Book of 2019 and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Honigsbaum Mark, Mark Honigsbaum
• Editore: Norton and Co Ltd
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 16.06.2020
• Categoria: Saggistica; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Branche cliniche
• EAN: 9780393541311
• ISBN: 978-0-393-54131-1
• Numero di pagine: 478
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 13.9 x 21 x 2.8 cm
• Categorie: Aids, HIV, Epidemiology & medical statistics, influenza, Coronavirus, SARS, Ebola, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, MEDICAL / History, MEDICAL / Infectious Diseases, MEDICAL / Epidemiology, Covid-19, Public Health, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Medicine, epidemic, Outbreak, History of Science, infection, COVID, CDC, Infectious & contagious diseases, Disease, Zika, General and world history, Medical Sociology, Infectious and contagious diseases, epidemology, Epidemiology and Medical statistics, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, Medical History, plague, World Health Organization, bird flu