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The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,473 ratings — published 2006
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.16 — 121,891 ratings — published 1994
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,711 ratings — published 2004
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.42 — 20,553 ratings — published 2012
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,749 ratings — published 1994
The Demon in the Freezer (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.15 — 18,195 ratings — published 2002
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,055 ratings — published 2015
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.39 — 29,377 ratings — published 1987
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.71 — 12,236 ratings — published 2012
Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,671 ratings — published 1999
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.23 — 14,110 ratings — published 2017
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,741 ratings — published 2006
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.92 — 8,168 ratings — published 2017
Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,171 ratings — published 2004
Plagues and Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.87 — 5,012 ratings — published 1976
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.34 — 114,821 ratings — published 2010
Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,460 ratings — published 2017
Epidemiology (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.86 — 516 ratings — published 2000
The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,126 ratings — published 2008
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.35 — 208,418 ratings — published 2025
The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,347 ratings — published 2011
Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,843 ratings — published 2001
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.42 — 7,909 ratings — published 2019
Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.74 — 5,102 ratings — published 2008
Polio: An American Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,001 ratings — published 2005
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.94 — 11,464 ratings — published 2023
Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.85 — 909 ratings — published 2013
Epidemiology: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.37 — 348 ratings — published 2010
The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,529 ratings — published 2010
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.32 — 43,025 ratings — published 2021
Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present (Open Yale Courses)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,020 ratings — published 2019
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,375 ratings — published 2016
Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,043 ratings — published 2014
Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,893 ratings — published 2010
Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,554 ratings — published 1996
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.13 — 807,571 ratings — published 2010
A Planet of Viruses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,102 ratings — published 2011
Deadly Feasts: The "Prion" Controversy and the Public's Health (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,485 ratings — published 1997
The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,113 ratings — published 2003
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.20 — 88,983 ratings — published 2003
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.88 — 11,731 ratings — published 2005
The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,231 ratings — published 2001
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.17 — 31,905 ratings — published 2016
Viruses, Plagues, and History (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,310 ratings — published 1998
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.04 — 459,483 ratings — published 1997
Epidemiology: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.95 — 147 ratings — published 2002
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,920 ratings — published 1999
The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,806 ratings — published 2011
Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.20 — 6,068 ratings — published 2000
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,081 ratings — published 2022
“In his airport bestseller from 2018, Enlightenment Now, Steven Pinker, the leading voice in the choir of bourgeois optimism, revelled in the ‘conquest of infectious disease’ all over the globe – Europe, America, but above all the developing countries – as proof that ‘a rich world is a healthier world’, or, in transparent terms, that a world under the thumb of capital is the best of all possible worlds. ‘ “Smallpox was an infectious disease” ’, Pinker read on Wikipedia – ‘yes, “smallpox was” ’; it exists no more, and the diseases not yet obliterated are being rapidly decimated. Pinker closed the book on the subject by confidently predicting that no pandemic would strike the world in the foreseeable future. Had he cared to read the science, he would have known that waves from a rising tide were already crashing against the fortress he so dearly wished to defend.
He could, for instance, have opened the pages of Nature, where a team of scientists in 2008 analysed 335 outbreaks of ‘emerging infectious diseases’ since 1940 and found that their number had ‘risen significantly over time’.”
― Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
He could, for instance, have opened the pages of Nature, where a team of scientists in 2008 analysed 335 outbreaks of ‘emerging infectious diseases’ since 1940 and found that their number had ‘risen significantly over time’.”
― Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
“This is an infectious disease, Conant began. The CDC case-control study may offer some definitive word on how it was spread, but that research was stalled, probably for lack of resources. We are losing time, and time is the enemy in any epidemic. The disease is moving even if the government isn’t.”
― And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
― And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
