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Foreign bodies : pandemics, vaccines and the health of nations / Simon Schama.
By: Schama, Simon.
Publisher: London : Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, 2024Description: 480 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781471169922 (pbk.) :; 1471169928 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Pandemics -- History | Zoonoses -- Epidemiology -- Popular works | World health | Globalization -- Health aspects | Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- History | Health and Fitness | Health and Wellbeing | History | General & world history | European history | Public health & preventive medicine | Clinical & internal medicineDDC classification: 614.49 Summary: Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity of science, it has happened before. Characteristically, with Schama the message is delivered through gripping, page-turning stories set in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: smallpox strikes London; cholera hits Paris; plague comes to India.| Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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| Adult book | Moss Bank Library Adult Non-Fiction | 614.49 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 38055400026813 |
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Originally published: 2023.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity of science, it has happened before. Characteristically, with Schama the message is delivered through gripping, page-turning stories set in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: smallpox strikes London; cholera hits Paris; plague comes to India.