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        May We Make the World?

        May We Make the World?

        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

        More Than a Health Crisis

        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

        War on All Fronts

        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

        Howard Hiatt

        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

        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.”
        Cultures of Contagion

        Cultures of Contagion

        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

        A Cultural Biography of the Prostate

        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

        Vaccination Ethics and Policy

        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.
        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.
        Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity

        Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity

        Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity

        by Arup K. Chakraborty and Andrey S. Shaw

        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.
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