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  • Lung Plague

    Origins, Impact and Epidemiology of Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia

    by Dr Robin Nicholas, Professor Justin Kastner ...
    Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP), or lung plague, is one of the great historic diseases of livestock, and still causes major economic losses in Sub-Saharan Africa. It spread to all continents where cattle were farmed in the 19th and 20th centuries, but until relatively recently little was known of its origins and impact around the world. Covering its worldwide spread, impact in terms of ... Read more

    $169.99 CAD

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  • Plagues Upon the Earth

    Disease and the Course of Human History

    by Kyle Harper ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    A sweeping germ’s-eye view of history from human origins to global pandemicsPlagues Upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global history with insights from cutting-edge genetics, Kyle Harper explains why humanity’s uniquely dangerous disease pool is rooted deep in our evolutionary past, and why its growth is accelerated by ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Follow Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and The Forgotten History

    by Suzanne Humphries MD ...
    Not too long ago, lethal infections were feared in the Western world. Since that time, many countries have undergone a transformation from disease cesspools to much safer, healthier habitats. Starting in the mid-1800s, there was a steady drop in deaths from all infectious diseases, decreasing to relatively minor levels by the early 1900s. The history of that transformation involves famine, poverty ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • Cholera

    The Victorian Plague

    by Amanda J Thomas ...
    "[A] fusion of science, social, and medical history . . . fascinating . . . the understanding of and responses to cholera are covered in detail and with sensitivity" —The Victorian WebDiscover the story of the disease that devastated the Victorian population, and brought about major changes in sanitation. Drawing on the latest scientific research and a wealth of archival material, Amanda J. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Doctors in Denial

    The Forgotten Women in the 'Unfortunate Experiment'

    by Ronald W. Jones ...
    When Dr Ron Jones joined the staff of National Women's Hospital in Auckland in 1973 as a junior obstetrician and gynecologist, Professor Herbert Green's study into the natural history of carcinoma in-situ of the cervix (CIS) – later called 'the unfortunate experiment' – had been in progress for seven years. By the mid-1960s there was almost universal agreement among gynecologists and pathologists ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • This Mortal Coil

    A Guardian, Economist & Prospect Book of the Year

    by Andrew Doig ...
    A GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR'A superb book' Simon Sebag Montefiore'An empowering story of human ingenuity' Economist'Full of curious facts' The TimesCauses of death have changed irrevocably across time. In the course of a few centuries we have gone from a world where disease or violence were likely to strike anyone at any age, and wher... ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Plague Cycle

    The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease

    by Charles Kenny ...
    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

    $18.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Fever

    How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years

    by Sonia Shah ...
    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

    $19.19 CAD

  • Biography of Resistance

    The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens

    by Muhammad H. Zaman ...
    Award-winning Boston University educator and researcher Muhammad H. Zaman provides a chilling look at the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs, explaining how we got here and what we must do to address this growing global health crisis.In September 2016, a woman in Nevada became the first known case in the U.S. of a person who died of an infection resistant to every antibiotic available. Her ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Murderous Contagion

    A Human History of Disease

    by Mary Dobson ...
    Disease is the true serial killer of human history: the horrors of bubonic plague, cholera, syphilis, smallpox, tuberculosis and the like have claimed more lives and caused more misery than the depredations of warfare, famine and natural disasters combined.Murderous Contagion tells the compelling and at times unbearably moving story of the devastating impact of diseases on humankind - from the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Origins of AIDS

    by Jacques Pepin ...
    It is now thirty years since the discovery of AIDS but its origins continue to puzzle doctors and scientists. Inspired by his own experiences working as an infectious diseases physician in Africa, Jacques Pepin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and traces its subsequent development into the most dramatic and destructive epidemic of ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Atlas of Disease

    Mapping Deadly Epidemics and Contagion from the Plague to the Coronavirus

    by Sandra Hempel ...
    "A pleasingly written lay person's primer to disease epidemiology, as well as a gentle introduction to the social and cultural history of medicine." — The BiologistIncludes extensive illustrationsBehind every disease is a story, a narrative woven of multiple threads—from the natural history of the disease to the tale of its discovery and its place in world events. The Atlas of Disease is the first ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus