Recs if you like Polio: An American Story...
microhistories: “how do you even know that??”
microhistory: the intensive historical investigation of a well defined smaller unit of research (such as an event, community, individual or a settlement); it aspires to "ask large questions in small places"
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disease, germs, and plagues, oh my!
histories of sickness around the globe - death, destruction, and the fight for cures and eradication
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pandemic realism
despite collective abandonment and effective propaganda, the pandemic is ongoing. COVID continues to kill and maim people as it spreads unmitigated worldwide. these are books crucial to the study of the public health realities we’re up against as eugenics and fascism escalate - from disability justice to science communication to social movement histories.
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regrettably real diseases
nonfiction about diseases, epidemics, pandemics, outbreaks & more
focusing on horror & thriller nonfiction that will make you shudder as you read 👁️🗨️
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Public Health and Infectious Disease - Non-Fiction
Public health: scientific, political, social, cultural, economic…
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The History of Medicine
From The Four Humors to Chemotherapy.
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