The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease by Kenny, Charles

The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781982165338)

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The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease by Kenny, Charles

The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease

$28.00
The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease by Kenny, Charles

The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease

$28.00
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid, sweeping history of mankind's battles with infectious disease, for readers of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Yuval Harari's Sapiens and John Barry's 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 common response to the threat was exclusion--quarantining the sick or keeping them out. But the unprecedented hygiene and medical revolutions of the past two centuries have allowed humanity to free itself from the hold of epidemic cycles--resulting in an urbanized, globalized, and unimaginably wealthy world.

However, our development has lately become precarious. Climate and population fluctuations and aspects of our prosperity such as global trade have left us more vulnerable than ever to newly emerging plagues. Greater global cooperation toward sustainable health is urgently required--such as the international efforts to harvest a Covid-19 vaccine--with millions of lives and trillions of dollars at stake.

Written as colorful history, The Plague Cycle reveals the relationship between civilization, globalization, prosperity, and infectious disease over the past five millennia. It harnesses history, economics, and public health, and charts humanity's remarkable progress, providing a fascinating and timely look at the cyclical nature of infectious disease.

Author: Charles Kenny
ISBN-10: 1982165332
ISBN-13: 9781982165338
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Language: English
Published: 01/19/2021
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/2020 pg. 42
Publishers Weekly 11/02/2020
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2020
Booklist 12/15/2020 pg. 82
Library Journal 01/01/2021 pg. 86
By Charles Kenny
By Charles Kenny
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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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