Foreign bodies : the terror of contagion, the ingenuity of science
Schama, Simon2024
Book
Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity of science, it has happened before. Characteristically, with Schama the message is delivered through gripping, page-turning stories set in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: smallpox strikes London; cholera hits Paris; plague comes to India.
Main title:
Author:
Schama, Simon, author
Imprint:
London : Simon & Schuster, 2024.
Collation:
xii, 465 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2023.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781471169922 (pbk)
Dewey class:
614.49
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1358436