Epidemics: Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS by Samuel K. Cohn Jr.

Epidemics: Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS

Samuel K. Cohn Jr.

656 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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By investigating thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the distrust and violence that erupted with Ebola in 2014, Epidemics challenges a dominant hypothesis in the study of epidemics,...

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