By Mary Dobson
Disease is the genuine serial killer of human background: the horrors of bubonic plague, cholera, syphilis, smallpox, tuberculosis etc have claimed extra lives and prompted extra distress than the depredations of struggle, famine and average mess ups mixed.
Murderous Contagion tells the compelling and from time to time unbearably relocating tale of the devastating effect of ailments on humankind - from the Black demise of the 14th century to the Spanish flu of 1918-19 and the AIDS epidemic of the fashionable period. during this publication Mary Dobson additionally relates the endeavours of physicians and scientists to appreciate and determine the reasons of illnesses and locate methods of stopping them.
This is a well timed and revelatory paintings of well known historical past by way of a author whose wisdom of, and exuberance for, her topic shines via her each word.
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