Sign in with Facebook
90 books
—
19 voters
Epidemiology Books
Showing 1-50 of 1,956
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.89 — 57,351 ratings — published 2006
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.16 — 124,439 ratings — published 1994
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,201 ratings — published 2004
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.42 — 20,972 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 — 10,778 ratings — published 1994
The Demon in the Freezer (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.15 — 18,594 ratings — published 2002
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.39 — 29,806 ratings — published 1987
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,086 ratings — published 2015
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.71 — 13,264 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 — 7,698 ratings — published 1999
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.32 — 275,223 ratings — published 2025
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.23 — 14,458 ratings — published 2017
Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,180 ratings — published 2004
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 — 6,813 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 — 8,285 ratings — published 2017
Plagues and Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.87 — 5,081 ratings — published 1976
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.34 — 117,383 ratings — published 2010
Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.32 — 3,493 ratings — published 2017
Epidemiology (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.85 — 519 ratings — published 2000
The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,133 ratings — published 2008
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.94 — 12,655 ratings — published 2023
Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,868 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 14 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.43 — 8,347 ratings — published 2019
The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,350 ratings — published 2011
Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present (Open Yale Courses)
by (shelved 13 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,081 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 — 5,168 ratings — published 2008
Polio: An American Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,111 ratings — published 2005
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.44 — 4,478 ratings — published 2016
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 3.84 — 932 ratings — published 2013
Epidemiology: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.37 — 354 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 — 1,545 ratings — published 2010
Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,570 ratings — published 1996
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.21 — 90,046 ratings — published 2003
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.32 — 43,605 ratings — published 2021
Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,092 ratings — published 2014
Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,919 ratings — published 2010
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.88 — 12,137 ratings — published 2005
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.17 — 33,181 ratings — published 2016
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.13 — 822,358 ratings — published 2010
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,937 ratings — published 1999
A Planet of Viruses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,208 ratings — published 2011
Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.20 — 6,148 ratings — published 2000
Deadly Feasts: The "Prion" Controversy and the Public's Health (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,503 ratings — published 1997
The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,124 ratings — published 2003
The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,326 ratings — published 2001
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,146 ratings — published 2022
Viruses, Plagues, and History (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,326 ratings — published 1998
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.04 — 468,630 ratings — published 1997
Epidemiology: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.94 — 151 ratings — published 2002
The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,823 ratings — published 2011
“The work of epidemiology is related to unanswered questions, but also to unquestioned answers.”
―
―
“Few diseases have had an impact on human evolution, culture and society on par with malaria. It is one of the oldest documented infectious diseases. Indeed, it has been hypothesised that the protective effect bestowed by a heterozygous sickle cell allele explains its survival to the modern day. As such, malaria has left its footprint on human evolution in a profound way few other diseases have.
Yet its true origins were the matter of considerable controversy. The clue is in the name – the prevailing theory until Ross's discovery was that malaria resulted from 'mala aria', that is, 'bad air'.
It took the advent of modern evidence-based medical science to challenge this 'miasma theory'. Ross's elucidation of the role of mosquitoes in the lifecycle of malaria has opened up a new subject for epidemiological consideration: the vector-borne disease.”
― Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease: With Applications in Python
Yet its true origins were the matter of considerable controversy. The clue is in the name – the prevailing theory until Ross's discovery was that malaria resulted from 'mala aria', that is, 'bad air'.
It took the advent of modern evidence-based medical science to challenge this 'miasma theory'. Ross's elucidation of the role of mosquitoes in the lifecycle of malaria has opened up a new subject for epidemiological consideration: the vector-borne disease.”
― Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease: With Applications in Python
