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More Than a Health Crisis
Securitization and the US Response to the 2013–2016 Ebola Outbreak
ISBN: 9780262545693
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 19, 2023
Forthcoming from the MIT Press
War on All Fronts
A Theory of Health Security Justice
ISBN: 9780262545433
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 16, 2023
An argument for the centrality of rights in health security, and how to apply ethical principles to protecting those rights during public health crises.
Howard Hiatt
How This Extraordinary Mentor Transformed Health with Science and Compassion
ISBN: 9780262546690
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 1, 2022
The seven-decade career of Howard Hiatt, a pioneer in public health, advocate for global health and health equity, a mentor to generations of healthcare leaders.
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.”
Cultures of Contagion
ISBN: 9780262045919
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 19, 2021
Contagion as process, metaphor, and timely interpretive tool, from antiquity to the twenty-first century.
A Cultural Biography of the Prostate
A Cultural Biography of the Prostate
ISBN: 9780262543040
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 7, 2021
What contemporary prostate angst tells us about how we understand masculinity, aging, and sexuality.
Vaccination Ethics and Policy
An Introduction with Readings
ISBN: 9780262544122
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 24, 2021
A comprehensive overview of important and contested issues in vaccination ethics and policy by experts from history, science, policy, law, and ethics.
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.
Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity
Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity
ISBN: 9780262542388
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 16, 2021
How viruses emerge to cause pandemics, how our immune system combats them, and how diagnostic tests, vaccines, and antiviral therapies work.
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.

More Than a Health Crisis
Securitization and the US Response to the 2013–2016 Ebola Outbreak
ISBN: 9780262545693
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 19, 2023
War on All Fronts
A Theory of Health Security Justice
ISBN: 9780262545433
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 16, 2023
Howard Hiatt
How This Extraordinary Mentor Transformed Health with Science and Compassion
ISBN: 9780262546690
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 1, 2022
Visual Plague
The Emergence of Epidemic Photography
ISBN: 9780262544221
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 25, 2022
Cultures of Contagion
ISBN: 9780262045919
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 19, 2021
A Cultural Biography of the Prostate
A Cultural Biography of the Prostate
ISBN: 9780262543040
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 7, 2021
Vaccination Ethics and Policy
An Introduction with Readings
ISBN: 9780262544122
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 24, 2021
People Count
Contact-Tracing Apps and Public Health
ISBN: 9780262045711
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 6, 2021
Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity
Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity
ISBN: 9780262542388
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 16, 2021
Epidemic Illusions
On the Coloniality of Global Public Health
ISBN: 9780262045605
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 22, 2020