A Short History of Disease

“Martin isn’t joking when he calls this a history of disease. He goes right back to the earliest bacteria to evolve on the primordial Earth, long before there was anything around to infect. The path they take from there is the kind of story you might wish you’d learned in school science lessons… . A consistently interesting, clearly told book bringing many diverse threads together in one place.” –Herald Scotland

Sean Martin is a writer, poet and filmmaker. He has written books on The Knights Templar, Alchemy and Alchemists, The Gnostics, The Cathars, Andrei Tarkovsky and New Waves in Cinema. His films include Lanterna Magicka: Bill Douglas & the Secret History of Cinema (‘a fine documentary’ The Guardian), and Folie Deux.