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Ending Epidemics
A History of Escape from Contagion
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
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.
Ebola's Message
Public Health and Medicine in the Twenty-First Century
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.
Ending Epidemics
A History of Escape from Contagion
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
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.
Ebola's Message
Public Health and Medicine in the Twenty-First Century
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.