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        Ending Epidemics

        Ending Epidemics

        Ending Epidemics

        A History of Escape from Contagion

        by Richard Conniff

        ISBN: 9780262047968

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 11, 2023

        How scientists saved humanity from the deadliest infectious diseases—and what we can do to prepare ourselves for future epidemics.
        Visual Plague

        Visual Plague

        Visual Plague

        The Emergence of Epidemic Photography

        by Christos Lynteris

        ISBN: 9780262544221

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 25, 2022

        How epidemic photography during a global pandemic of bubonic plague contributed to the development of modern epidemiology and our concept of the “pandemic.”
        People Count

        People Count

        People Count

        Contact-Tracing Apps and Public Health

        by Susan Landau

        ISBN: 9780262045711

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 6, 2021

        An introduction to the technology of contact tracing and its usefulness for public health, considering questions of efficacy, equity, and privacy.
        Epidemic Illusions

        Epidemic Illusions

        Epidemic Illusions

        On the Coloniality of Global Public Health

        by Eugene T Richardson

        Foreword by Paul Farmer

        ISBN: 9780262045605

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 22, 2020

        A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices—from epidemiological modeling to outbreak containment—help perpetuate global inequities.
        Ebola’s Message

        Ebola's Message

        Ebola's Message

        Public Health and Medicine in the Twenty-First Century

        Edited by Nicholas G. Evans, Tara C. Smith and Maimuna S. Majumder

        ISBN: 9780262035071

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 7, 2016

        Interdisciplinary perspectives on the science, politics, and ethics of the 2013–2015 Ebola virus disease outbreak.
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