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A history of the world in six plagues : how contagion, class, and captivity shaped us, from cholera to COVID-19 / Edna Bonhomme.
Epidemic diseases enter the world by chance, but they become catastrophic by human design. With clear-eyed research and lush prose, A History of the World in Six Plagues shows that throughout history, outbreaks of disease have been exacerbated by and gone on to further expand the racial, economic, and sociopolitical divides we allow to fester in times of good health. Princeton-trained historian Edna Bonhomme's examination of humanity's disastrous treatment of pandemic disease takes us across place and time from Port-au-Prince to Tanzania, and from plantation-era America to our modern COVID-19-scarred world to unravel shocking truths about the patterns of discrimination in the face of disease. Based on in-depth research and cultural analysis, Bonhomme explores Cholera, HIV/AIDS, the Spanish Flu, Sleeping Sickness, Ebola, and COVID-19 amidst the backdrop of unequal public policy. But much more than a remarkable history, A History of the World in Six Plagues is also a rising call for change.-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 1982197838
- ISBN: 1982197846
- ISBN: 9781982197834
- ISBN: 9781982197841
- Physical Description: xxix, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : One Signal Publishers/Atria, 2025.
- Copyright: ©2024
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-265) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Contagion on the plantation -- The African laboratory -- Who's afraid of the flu? -- Breaking the walls of silence -- Ebola town -- Relentless -- Locked up. |
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| Subject: | Communicable diseases > Political aspects > History. Diseases and history. Epidemics > History. Pandemics > History. Plague > History. |
| Genre: | Informational works. |
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| Baker County Library | 614.49 .B714h 2025 (Text) | 37814003703726 | NON-FICTION - NEW | Reshelving | - | ||
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Summary:
Epidemic diseases enter the world by chance, but they become catastrophic by human design. With clear-eyed research and lush prose, A History of the World in Six Plagues shows that throughout history, outbreaks of disease have been exacerbated by and gone on to further expand the racial, economic, and sociopolitical divides we allow to fester in times of good health. Princeton-trained historian Edna Bonhomme's examination of humanity's disastrous treatment of pandemic disease takes us across place and time from Port-au-Prince to Tanzania, and from plantation-era America to our modern COVID-19-scarred world to unravel shocking truths about the patterns of discrimination in the face of disease. Based on in-depth research and cultural analysis, Bonhomme explores Cholera, HIV/AIDS, the Spanish Flu, Sleeping Sickness, Ebola, and COVID-19 amidst the backdrop of unequal public policy. But much more than a remarkable history, A History of the World in Six Plagues is also a rising call for change.--
