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The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
Taschenbuch von Mark Honigsbaum
Sprache: Englisch

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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.

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.

Über den Autor
Mark Honigsbaum is a medical historian, journalist, and author of five books including The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris and The Fever Trail: In Search of the Cure for Malaria. He is currently a lecturer at City University of London.
Zusammenfassung
With a New Chapter and Updated Epilogue on Coronavirus
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Therapie
Genre: Medizin
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 480 S.
ISBN-13: 9780393541311
ISBN-10: 0393541312
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 54131
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Honigsbaum, Mark
Hersteller: Blue Guides Limited of London
Maße: 213 x 141 x 32 mm
Von/Mit: Mark Honigsbaum
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.06.2020
Gewicht: 0,403 kg
Artikel-ID: 118169732
Über den Autor
Mark Honigsbaum is a medical historian, journalist, and author of five books including The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris and The Fever Trail: In Search of the Cure for Malaria. He is currently a lecturer at City University of London.
Zusammenfassung
With a New Chapter and Updated Epilogue on Coronavirus
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Therapie
Genre: Medizin
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 480 S.
ISBN-13: 9780393541311
ISBN-10: 0393541312
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 54131
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Honigsbaum, Mark
Hersteller: Blue Guides Limited of London
Maße: 213 x 141 x 32 mm
Von/Mit: Mark Honigsbaum
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.06.2020
Gewicht: 0,403 kg
Artikel-ID: 118169732
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