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May We Make the World?

Gene Drives, Malaria, and the Future of Nature

by Laurie Zoloth

ISBN: 9780262546980

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: December 19, 2023

An in-depth look at genetic alteration in the natural world and the oppositions to it, seen through the case study of a gene drive for malaria.

More Than a Health Crisis

Securitization and the US Response to the 2013–⁠2016 Ebola Outbreak

by Jessica Kirk

ISBN: 9780262545693

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 3, 2023

How the West African Ebola epidemic was transformed from an urgent and distant tragedy into an existential threat to American lives—establishing the dynamics that would later dominate the US response to epidemics such as COVID-19.

War on All Fronts

A Theory of Health Security Justice

by Nicholas G. Evans

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

by Mark Rosenberg

Foreword by Michelle A. Williams

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

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.”

Cultures of Contagion

Edited by Béatrice Delaurenti and Thomas Le Roux

Afterword by Thomas Piketty

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

by Ericka Johnson

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

Edited by Jason L. Schwartz and Arthur L. Caplan

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.