This history of mankind's battles against infectious diseases looks at how epidemics shaped empires and economies and how medical revolutions freed us from these cycles until new threats caused by changes in global trade and climate.
...MoreReview Karl Rodabaugh (2022) Review of "The plague cycle : The unending war between humanity and infectious disease". Environmental History (pp. 158-162).
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