{"product_id":"a-history-of-the-world-edna-bonhomme-9781982197834","title":"A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to Covid-19","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn the vein of \u003ci\u003eMedical Apartheid\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Color of Law\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eJust Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e, a prodigious history of global disease that reveals the devastating link between public health and systemic inequality.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAIDS, cholera, the Spanish flu--epidemics become catastrophic not only by chance, but by human design. With clear-eyed research and accessible prose, \u003ci\u003eA History of the World in Six Plagues\u003c\/i\u003e shows that throughout history, outbreaks of disease have been exacerbated by the racial, economic, and sociopolitical divides we allow to bloom in times of good health. These self-defeating practices have time and again undermined public health efforts, and ultimately furthered damage to the already marginalized and vulnerable communities they target. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePrinceton-trained historian Edna Bonhomme's examination of humankind's disastrous treatment of pandemic disease takes us across place and time from Port-au-Prince to Tanzania, and from plantation-era America to our modern COVID-19-scarred world to unravel the shocking truths about the history of race, class, and gender-based discrimination in the face of disease. From Haitians targeted and ostracized as the alleged source of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, to the creation of concentration camps and depraved medical experimentations in the face of sleeping sickness in western Africa, and to marginalized communities overlooked and scapegoated while the wealthy sheltered from COVID-19 in relative safety, Bonhomme effortlessly shows us the oppressive practices that shape our history and our present. Much more than a remarkable history, \u003ci\u003eA History of the World in Six Plagues \u003c\/i\u003eis also a rising call to action for change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edna Bonhomme\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1982197838\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781982197834\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Atria\/One Signal Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.83d","brand":"Edna Bonhomme","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44169719480575,"sku":"9781982197834","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_492fcff0-b05f-4956-8777-33adf8089c92.jpg?v=1689654536","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-history-of-the-world-edna-bonhomme-9781982197834","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}