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Epidemiology Books
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The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,838 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 — 122,757 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 — 42,870 ratings — published 2004
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.42 — 20,688 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 — 10,757 ratings — published 1994
The Demon in the Freezer (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.15 — 18,331 ratings — published 2002
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,066 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 — 29,533 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 — 12,796 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 — 7,684 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 — 14,225 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 — 6,761 ratings — published 2006
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.34 — 239,612 ratings — published 2025
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.92 — 8,213 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 — 2,172 ratings — published 2004
Plagues and Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.87 — 5,047 ratings — published 1976
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.34 — 115,833 ratings — published 2010
Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.32 — 3,468 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 4.12 — 3,124 ratings — published 2008
The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,348 ratings — published 2011
Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,857 ratings — published 2001
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.94 — 11,942 ratings — published 2023
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 — 8,024 ratings — published 2019
Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present (Open Yale Courses)
by (shelved 13 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,044 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 3.75 — 5,120 ratings — published 2008
Polio: An American Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,050 ratings — published 2005
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 — 919 ratings — published 2013
Epidemiology: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.36 — 353 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 — 1,536 ratings — published 2010
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.32 — 43,243 ratings — published 2021
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.44 — 4,417 ratings — published 2016
Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,058 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 — 1,902 ratings — published 2010
Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,559 ratings — published 1996
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.13 — 813,706 ratings — published 2010
A Planet of Viruses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,149 ratings — published 2011
Deadly Feasts: The "Prion" Controversy and the Public's Health (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,495 ratings — published 1997
The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,119 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 — 89,403 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 — 11,924 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 4.06 — 3,262 ratings — published 2001
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,107 ratings — published 2022
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.17 — 32,363 ratings — published 2016
Viruses, Plagues, and History (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,312 ratings — published 1998
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.04 — 463,095 ratings — published 1997
Epidemiology: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.95 — 149 ratings — published 2002
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,923 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 — 5,817 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 — 6,101 ratings — published 2000
“How do you know?" Red repeated each word slowly, enunciating every consonant. "If the CDC brewed up something in their lab and it accidentally was let loose in the world, do you think they would tell you?”
― The Girl in Red
― The Girl in Red
“Any subject whose history ranges from pump handles on London's Broad Street, tide tables, naval gunfire and models of social segregation is bound to have rich parentage.
It took 'a village' to beget computational epidemiology: as a true multi-disciplinary subject, it evolved at the crossroads of mathematics, computation, statistics and medicine, with some contributions from systems biology, virology, microbiology, game theory, geography and perhaps even the social sciences.”
― Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease: With Applications in Python
It took 'a village' to beget computational epidemiology: as a true multi-disciplinary subject, it evolved at the crossroads of mathematics, computation, statistics and medicine, with some contributions from systems biology, virology, microbiology, game theory, geography and perhaps even the social sciences.”
― Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease: With Applications in Python
