The Pandemic Century : One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1787381218
ISBN-13
9781787381216
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Imprint
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 9th, 2019
Print length
392 Pages
Weight
710 grams
Dimensions
16.70 x 24.20 x 3.40 cms
Product Classification:
General & world historyHistory of medicine
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A smart and lively journey through a century of pandemics, from the Spanish flu to Zika.
Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing 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.From pneumonic plague in LA and ‘parrot fever’ in Argentina to the more recent AIDS, SARS and Ebola epidemics, the last 100 years have been marked by a succession of unanticipated outbreaks and scares. Like man-eating sharks, predatory pathogens are always present in nature, waiting to strike; when one is seemingly vanquished, others appear in its place. The Pandemic Century exposes the limits of science against nature, and how these crises are shaped by humans as much as microbes.
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