{"product_id":"a-history-of-the-world-edna-bonhomme-9781982197841","title":"A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to Covid-19","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn \"incredible, humane, insightful\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\" (Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize winner)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e account of humankind's battles with epidemic disease, and their outsized role in deepening inequality along racial, ethnic, class, and gender lines--in the vein of\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMedical Apartheid\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKilling the Black Body\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith clear-eyed research and lush prose, \u003ci\u003eA History of the World in Six Plagues \u003c\/i\u003eis \"a breathtaking journey through the intertwined histories of contagions and systemic inequities that have shaped our history\" (Uché Blackstock, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Princeton-trained historian Edna Bonhomme's examination of humanity'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 shocking truths about the patterns of discrimination in the face of disease. Also a rising call to action, this \"tour de force...will change the way people think about public health and histories of medicine\" (Dr. Tiffany N. Florvil, author of \u003ci\u003eMobilizing Black Germany\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edna Bonhomme\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1982197846\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781982197841\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\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.38h x 5.50w x 0.80d","brand":"Edna Bonhomme","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48066628321535,"sku":"9781982197841","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7020029f-bb71-4c6f-b19a-79f9074763a0.jpg?v=1768679528","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-history-of-the-world-edna-bonhomme-9781982197841","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}