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microhistories: “how do you even know that??”

by anaconda
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288 books

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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Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous ItemsSalt: A World HistoryDark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human SkinCSI Told You Lies: Giving victims a voice through forensics.
Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous ItemsSalt: A World History

disease, germs, and plagues, oh my!

by endless_tbr_list
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39 books

histories of sickness around the globe - death, destruction, and the fight for cures and eradication

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesGet Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought ThemPathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight PlaguesThe Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesGet Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them

pandemic realism

by deleted
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67 books

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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Health CommunismLet This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care (Abolitionist Papers)The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease CollideCapitalism and Disability: Essays by Marta Russell
Health CommunismLet This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care (Abolitionist Papers)

regrettably real diseases

by stainedglasswings
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33 books

nonfiction about diseases, epidemics, pandemics, outbreaks & more

focusing on horror & thriller nonfiction that will make you shudder as you read 👁️‍🗨️

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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola VirusRabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical VirusThe Demon in the FreezerSpillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola VirusRabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

Public Health and Infectious Disease - Non-Fiction

by RoseArcher
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97 books

Public health: scientific, political, social, cultural, economic…

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesWhere There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care HandbookThe White Death: A History of TuberculosisWhere Women Have No Doctor: A Health Guide for Women
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesWhere There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook

The History of Medicine

by j.bateman
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29 books

From The Four Humors to Chemotherapy.

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesThe Gene: An Intimate HistoryThe Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to MedicineThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesThe Gene: An Intimate History
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