Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris

In spite of a century of medical progress since the 1918 influenza pandemic, medical disasters continue to take us by surprise. This book surveys the history of greater and lesser known pandemics and the fights to contain them in the past century and uses history of science and medical sociology to reconstruct and understand epidemiological mysteries surrounding infections diseases and their wider effects on society.

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