The Human Disease
How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs
$50.41
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
14 May 2024
Summary
The COVID-19 pandemic won’t be our last—because what makes us vulnerable to pandemics also makes us human. That is the uncomfortable but all-too-timely message of The Human Disease, which travels through history and around the globe to examine how and why pandemics are an inescapable threat of our own making.
Drawing on dozens of disciplines—from medicine, epidemiology, and microbiology to anthropology, sociology, ecology, and neuroscience—as well as a unique expertise in pub…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262048859 |
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| ISBN-10: | 026204885X |
| Author: | Sabrina Sholts, Lonnie G. Bunch |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 14 May 2024 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“A timely opportunity not just for a sober account of the COVID-19 pandemic but also for an illumination of the ways in which we approach, or indeed fail to approach, pandemics in their biosocial and historical complexity… . [Sholts] provides illuminating and enriching insights.”
—Science
“This book is a must read for anyone curious about the crossroads of science, culture, and public health. It delves into the origins and progression of pandemics, encouraging readers to grasp their biological complexities while confronting the societal structures and beliefs that sustain them.”
—The Quarterly Review of Biology
Sabrina Sholts
Sabrina Sholts is the curator of biological anthropology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. She developed the major exhibit “Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World” and served as a scientific commissioner for a related exhibition at the Musée des Confluences in Lyon, France.
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