Covers the history of twelve important diseases and addresses public health responses and societal upheavals. Chronicles the ways disease outbreaks shaped tradi

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The history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact—political, demographic, ecological

The Power of Plagues presents a rogues' gallery of epidemic- causing microorganisms placed in the context of world history. Author Irwin W. Sherman introduces t

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