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Now That We’re All Amateur Epidemiologists, Here Are 9 Books to Further Your Studies

Whether you’re still contending with Covid or worrying about our country’s unwillingness to prepare for the next major illness, the books below may provide solace by introducing a wider historical context for the way we deal with viruses.

October 13, 2022 · 1 min · 42 words · Donald Jacobs

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The COVID-19 pandemic reignited debate over the efficacy and dangers of vaccination.

The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide by Steven W. Thrasher

Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between by Joseph Osmundson

Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and On the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa

Everybody: A Book About Freedom by Olivia Laing

Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer

Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993 by Sarah Schulman

American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19 by John Fabian Witt

Immunization: How Vaccines Became Controversial by Stuart Blume

‘Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors’ by Susan Sontag