Murderous Contagion  -  Mary Dobson

A Human History of Disease

KORTE INHOUD

Disease is the true serial killer of human history: the horrors of bubonic plague, cholera, syphilis, smallpox, tuberculosis and the like have claimed more lives and caused more misery than the depredations of warfare, famine and natural disasters combined. Murderous Contagion tells the compelling and at times unbearably moving story of the devastating impact of diseases on humankind - from the Black Death of the 14th century to the Spanish flu of 1918-19 and the AIDS epidemic of the modern era. In this boo...
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2015 Uitgever: Quercus 320 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 1782069437 ISBN-13: 9781782069430