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A History of the World in Six Plagues
- How Contagion, Class and Captivity Shape Us, from Cholera to Covid-19
Engelsk
Bogcover for A History of the World in Six Plagues af Edna Bonhomme, 9780349704371
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Sprog:
Engelsk
ISBN-13:
9780349704371
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0349704376
Udg. Dato:
13 mar 2025
Størrelse i cm:
23,3 x 15,3 x 2,5
Oplagsdato:
13 mar 2025
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A History of the World in Six Plagues

- How Contagion, Class and Captivity Shape Us, from Cholera to Covid-19
Engelsk
Paperback 2025
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A History of the World in Six Plagues unveils a powerful and unsettling truth: epidemic diseases enter the world by chance, but they become catastrophic by human design.

In this groundbreaking work, Bonhomme explores how six pivotal diseases - Cholera, HIV/AIDS, the Spanish Flu, Sleeping Sickness, Ebola and COVID-19 - have shaped the trajectory of human history. With vivid storytelling and rigorous research, she reveals how pandemics have consistently widened the gaps in racial, economic and sociopolitical divides, from the slave ships of the Atlantic to today's fractured healthcare systems.

How did a colonial obsession with sugar amplify the devastation of Cholera? Why did sleeping sickness become a weapon of empire in Tanzania? And how has COVID-19 magnified inequities in our modern, interconnected world?

Bonhomme's incisive analysis transforms our understanding of public health, not as a neutral force but as a stage where power, policy and prejudice collide. Urgent and illuminating, A History of the World in Six Plagues is not just a history of disease - it is a call to reimagine a more equitable future in the face of ongoing global health challenges.

'This book tells the accounts of people who deserved better. It is also a story of redemption, and of the little child in all of us, curled up alone in a huge bed, without her parents, who wants to be healthy and free.'

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
ISBN-13:
9780349704371
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0349704376
Udg. Dato:
13 mar 2025
Størrelse i cm:
23,3 x 15,3 x 2,5
Oplagsdato:
13 mar 2025
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