Foreign Bodies
Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023], ©2023.
Format: Book
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Description: xii, 465 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
"A vibrant cultural history investigating the tangled and complex history of pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon Schama"--Dust jacket flap.
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 frontières -- Part three: Power and pestilence: plague. The death of rats -- Calamity snaps -- Carbolic -- Departures -- And in the end...
ISBN:
9781328974839
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HEALTH Outbreak Sch | Main (Downtown) | Nonfiction | Out (Due: 5/6/2024) |
Originally published in Great Britain in 2023 by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-445) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-445) and index.