Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
3 March 2021
Summary
A vivid, sweeping history of mankind’s battles with infectious disease, for readers of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Sapiens and The Great Influenza.
For four thousand years, the size and vitality of cities, economies, and empires were heavily determined by infection. Striking humanity in waves, the cycle of plagues set the tempo of civilizational growth and decline, since the common response to the threat was exclusion—quarantining the sick or keeping them out. …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781982165338 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1982165332 |
| Author: | Charles Kenny |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Scribner |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2021 |
| Weight: | 470g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 25mm |
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About The Author
Charles Kenny
Charles Kenny is a writer-researcher at the Center for Global Development and has worked on policy reforms in global health as well as UN peacekeeping and combating international financial corruption. Previously, he spent fifteen years as an economist at the World Bank, travelling the planet from Baghdad and Kabul to Brasilia and Beijing. He is the author of The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease, Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding and How We Can Improve the World Even More, and The Upside of Down: Why the Rise of the Rest Is Great for the West. He earned a history degree at Cambridge and has graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins, the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and Cambridge.
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