Foreign bodies pandemics, vaccines, and the health of nations
"A vibrant cultural history investigating the tangled and complex history of pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon Schama"--Dust jacket flap.
| Main Author: | Schama, Simon (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2023]
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- Et in suburbia ego
- Part one: East to west: smallpox. "The fresh and kindly pock"
- Safely! Quickly! Pleasantly!
- Part two: West to east: cholera. Proust's travels
- Sans frontieĢres
- Part three: Power and pestilence: plague. The death of rats
- Calamity snaps
- Carbolic
- Departures
- And in the end...