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Ending Epidemics
A History of Escape from Contagion
ISBN: 9780262552974
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 11, 2025
How scientists saved humanity from the deadliest infectious diseases—and what we can do to prepare ourselves for future epidemics.
Ebola's Message
Public Health and Medicine in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780262553421
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 19, 2024
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the science, politics, and ethics of the 2013–2015 Ebola virus disease outbreak.
The Human Disease
How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs
ISBN: 9780262048859
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 9, 2024
How the very fact of being human makes us vulnerable to pandemics—and gives us the power to save ourselves.
Visual Plague
The Emergence of Epidemic Photography
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.”
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Contact-Tracing Apps and Public Health
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
On the Coloniality of Global Public Health
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.
Ending Epidemics
A History of Escape from Contagion
ISBN: 9780262552974
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 11, 2025
How scientists saved humanity from the deadliest infectious diseases—and what we can do to prepare ourselves for future epidemics.
Ebola's Message
Public Health and Medicine in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780262553421
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 19, 2024
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the science, politics, and ethics of the 2013–2015 Ebola virus disease outbreak.
The Human Disease
How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs
ISBN: 9780262048859
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 9, 2024
How the very fact of being human makes us vulnerable to pandemics—and gives us the power to save ourselves.
Visual Plague
The Emergence of Epidemic Photography
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
Contact-Tracing Apps and Public Health
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
On the Coloniality of Global Public Health
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.