The human disease how we create pandemics, from our bodies to our beliefs
"The COVID 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 o...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Lonnie G. Bunch III
- Prologue : an empty museum
- Homo sapiens : the evolutionary upstart
- The human body : a perfect host
- Permanent residents : setting the stage
- Cultural transmission : sharing is caring
- People power : domination and disease
- Foreign foes
- Diseased deviants
- Distrusted authorities
- Loss of liberties
- Mass misinformation
- Conclusion : being human
- Epilogue : a museum changed.
