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  • Appalachian Epidemics

    From Smallpox to COVID-19

    Edited by Christopher M. White, Kevin T. Barksdale ...
    As the COVID-19 virus swept across the nation in spring 2020, infection and hospitalization rates in states like West Virginia remained relatively low. By that July, each of Appalachia's 423 counties had recorded confirmed cases. The coronavirus pandemic has taken an enormous toll on the health of individuals and institutions throughout the region—a stark reminder that even isolated rural ... Read more

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    The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

    by John M. Barry ...
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  • The Coming Plague

    Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

    by Laurie Garrett ...
    A New York Times bestsellerThe definitive account of the infectious diseases threatening humanity by Pulitzer Prize**–winning investigative journalist Laurie Garrett**"Prodigiously researched . . . A frightening vision of the future and a deeply unsettling one." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesAfter decades spent assuming that the conquest of infectious diseas... ... Read more

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  • Medical Apartheid

    The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

    by Harriet A. Washington ...
    NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • The first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to read this masterful book."[Washington] has unearthed a shocking amount of information and shaped it into a riveting, ... Read more

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  • Pandemic

    Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond

    by Sonia Shah ...
    Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | A New York Times Editor's Choice“[A] grounded, bracingly intelligent study” —NaturePrizewinning science journalist Sonia Shah presents a startling examination of the pandemics that have ravaged humanity—and shows us how history can prepare us to confront the most serious acute global health emergency of our time.Over the past fifty years, more than ... Read more

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  • Under the Skin

    The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)

    by Linda Villarosa ...
    PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • "A stunning exposé of why Black people in our society 'live sicker and die quicker'—an eye-opening game changer."—Oprah DailyFrom an award-winning writer at the New York Times Magazine and a contributor to the 1619 Project comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health ... Read more

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  • Extra Life

    A Short History of Living Longer

    by Steven Johnson ...
    “Offers a useful reminder of the role of modern science in fundamentally transforming all of our lives.” —President Barack Obama (on Twitter)“An important book.” —Steven Pinker, The New York Times Book ReviewThe surprising and important story of how humans gained what amounts to an extra life, from the bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come FromIn 1920, at the en... ... Read more

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  • A History of the World in Six Plagues

    How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to COVID-19

    by Edna Bonhomme ...
    An “incredible, humane, insightful**” (Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize winner)** account of humankind’s battles with epidemic disease, and their outsized role in deepening inequality along racial, ethnic, class, and gender lines—in the vein ofMedical Apartheidand*Killing the Black Body*.With clear-eyed research and lush prose, A History of the World in Six Plagues is “a breathtaking journ... ... Read more

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  • Booster Shots

    The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health

    by Adam Ratner MD, MPH ...
    A pediatrician and infectious disease specialist warns of the resurgence of measles, the antivaccine movement, and how we can prepare for the next pandemicEvery single child diagnosed with measles represents a system failure—an inexcusable unforced error. The technology to prevent essentially 100 percent of measles cases has been in our hands since before the moon landing. But this serious ... Read more

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  • The Plague Cycle

    The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease

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    A vivid, sweeping, and “fact-filled” (Booklist, starred review) history of mankind’s battles with infectious disease that “contextualizes the COVID-19 pandemic” (Publishers Weekly)—for readers of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Yuval Harari’s Sapiens and John Barry’s The Great Influenza.For four thousand years, the size and vitality of cities, economies, and empires were heavily determined by ... Read more

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  • The Fever

    How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years

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    This deep dive into humanity's very long fight against malaria is "a vivid and compelling history with a message that's entirely relevant today" (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction).In a time when every emergent disease inspires waves of panic, why aren't we doing more to eradicate one of our oldest foes? And how does a parasitic disease that we've known how ... Read more

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  • Pandemics

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    by Christian W. McMillen ...
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    The 2014 Ebola epidemic demonstrated the power of pandemics and their ability not only to destroy lives locally but also to capture the imagination and terrify the world. Christian W. McMillen provides a concise yet comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, illustrating how pandemic disease has shaped history and, at the same time, social behavior has influenced pandemic disease ... Read more

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