Informative and concise, with some very vivid descriptions of some horrible diseases. Great introduction and interesting revelations on diseases (origins, names, mutations), but some biases. : 50 Tales of Epidemics that Terrorized the World, Vaccine Science Revisited: Are Childhood Immunizations As Safe As Claimed?
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You must have a goodreads account to vote. This breadth means that things are necessarily simplif. A Short History of Disease by Sean Martin is a very highly recommended concise, easy to read history that presents a good overview of infectious and non-infectious diseases. Pocket Essentials; 1st Edition (September 15, 2015). This book is just ok. Watts' book is a series of related essays about the social construction of 6 major diseases. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published After reading David Quammen's Spillover, I read this in an attempt to broaden my understanding of diseases in general, which it did and more! The section on the Bubonic plague during the Middle Ages is very enlightening. September 15th 2015 Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. I am unfamiliar with the author, who appears to have written some other histories. I didn't mind the rant on capitalism and white man's burden because I do believe they have contributed immensely to the problem. Catching Breath by Kathryn Lougheed It was immensely readable, and covers the side of disease I am most interested in, namely the social history of disease and disease management.
Trying to make sense of anything before written history or even early written history is ridiculous.
Decent enough synopsis of the history of mostly infectious diseases (albeit it didn’t add a whole lot to what I already knew about the history of various epidemics), but this book suffers from a series of flaws: 1.
All members' list: Sort: Score | Title | Author | Date: 1: The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History. Although there is no startling new information here, this is a really useful World History companion (although a depressing one) describing the linked relationship of bacteria, viruses and humans from their earliest forms as the yaws scars on hominid skeletons(sometimes useful, often mutually hostile), and the dramatic rise of disease as neolithic people lived close to domesticated animals, changed their environment, created extra-microbe-rich soils and lived next to their own waste for extended. Pre-history that was passed along as oral story telling and then eventually written down, like the Bible, is not even worth wasting time exploring yet this author expends a lot of words to try to convince you that we can determine what those plagues may have been. by.
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