02253nam a2200313 i 4500 9918782157304201 BJBSDDR 20260527153304.0 a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta 260225s2020 nyu r 000 0 eng d 9780393541311 0393541312 ES-MaCSI eng BJBSDDR eng HM 1101 H773p 2020 Honigsbaum, Mark, 1960- 48423 The pandemic century : one hundred years of panic, hysteria, and hubris / Mark Honigsbaum. Norton paperback [edition] New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, 2020. 478 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm. "With a new chapter and updated epilogue on Coronavirus." cover Prologue: Sharks and Other Predators The Blue Death Plague in the City of Angels The Great Parrot Fever Pandemic The “Philly Killer” Legionnaires’ Redux AIDS in America, AIDS in Africa SARS: “Super Spreader” Ebola at the Borders Z is for Zika Disease X (in later editions / COVID update) Epilogue: The Pandemic Century Also included: Notes Abbreviations Acknowledgments Index How can we understand the COVID-19 pandemic? Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing such catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. In The Pandemic Century, a lively account of scares both infamous and less known, medical historian Mark Honigsbaum combines reportage with the history of science and medical sociology to artfully reconstruct epidemiological mysteries and the ecology of infectious diseases. We meet dedicated disease detectives, obstructive or incompetent public health officials, and brilliant scientists often blinded by their own knowledge of bacteria and viruses--and see how fear of disease often exacerbates racial, religious, and ethnic tensions. Pandemias 19023 Epidemias Historia 20255 Siglo XX lcc BK llh 127080 127080 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2026-05-13 0 HM 1101 H773p 2020 00000200095 2026-05-13 16:38:00 1 2026-05-13 BK