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        The Day after Yesterday

        The Day after Yesterday

        The Day after Yesterday

        Resilience in the Face of Dementia

        by Joe Wallace

        ISBN: 9780262048606

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 26, 2023

        A deft combination of narrative and portraiture that breaks the taboo around dementia, replacing the fear and futility with empathy and nuance.
        Ending Epidemics

        Ending Epidemics

        Ending Epidemics

        A History of Escape from Contagion

        by Richard Conniff

        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.
        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.
        Epidemic Illusions

        Epidemic Illusions

        Epidemic Illusions

        On the Coloniality of Global Public Health

        by Eugene T Richardson

        Foreword by Paul Farmer

        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.
        Anti-vaxxers

        Anti-vaxxers

        Anti-vaxxers

        How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement

        by Jonathan M. Berman

        ISBN: 9780262539326

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 8, 2020

        From science advocate and March on Science National Co-Chair Jonathan M. Berman, an essential takedown of the anti-vaccination movement, from its nineteenth-century antecedents to today's Facebook activists, offering strategies for refuting false claims of friends and family.
        Power and Care

        Power and Care

        Power and Care

        Toward Balance for Our Common Future—Science, Society, and Spirituality

        Edited by Tania Singer, Matthieu Ricard and Kate Karius

        ISBN: 9780262039529

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 7, 2019

        Leading thinkers from a range of disciplines discuss the compatibility of power and care, in conversation with the Dalai Lama.
        Fracking the Neighborhood

        Fracking the Neighborhood

        Fracking the Neighborhood

        Reluctant Activists and Natural Gas Drilling

        by Jessica Smartt Gullion

        ISBN: 9780262534628

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 8, 2017

        What happens when natural gas drilling moves into an urban area: how communities in North Texas responded to the environmental and health threats of fracking.
        Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress

        Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress

        Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress

        Diseases and Economic Development

        by Robert A. McGuire and Philip R. P. Coelho

        ISBN: 9780262015660

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 30, 2011

        The crucial role played by diseases in economic progress, the growth of civilizations, and American history.
        Disease Eradication in the 21st Century

        Disease Eradication in the 21st Century

        Disease Eradication in the 21st Century

        Implications for Global Health

        Edited by Stephen L. Cochi and Walter R. Dowdle

        ISBN: 9780262016735

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 16, 2011

        Experts explore the biological, social, and economic complexities of eradicating disease.
        Health and Disease in Human History

        Health and Disease in Human History

        Health and Disease in Human History

        A Journal of Interdisciplinary History Reader

        Edited by Robert I. Rotberg

        ISBN: 9780262681223

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 10, 2000

        For more than thirty years, interdisciplinary historians have studied how groups and individuals in the past progressed despite food scarcities, nutritional deficiencies, exposure to virulent disease...
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