Murderous Contagion
A Human History of Disease
$34.21
- Paperback
608 pages
- Release Date
10 March 2015
Summary
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 Black Death of the 14th century to the Spanish flu of 1918-19 and the AIDS epidemi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781782069430 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1782069437 |
| Author: | Mary Dobson |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | Quercus Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 608 |
| Release Date: | 10 March 2015 |
| Weight: | 487g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 44mm |
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‘This is an amazing book … written in clear and concise chapters and free of scientific jargon … lively and easily understandable essays’ Western Daily Press .
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About The Author
Mary Dobson
Mary Dobson is an historian of medicine and an expert in the history of tropical and infectious diseases. She is the author of numerous books and articles ranging from academic titles to popular science and history, including Disease: The Extraordinary Stories Behind History’s Deadliest Killers (Quercus). She has held a number of prestigious Research Fellowships and was Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine and Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford.
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