Medicine & Health · History of Medicine
A topic within History of Medicine, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Medicine & Health.
2 works
John M. Barry
Narrates the 1918 influenza pandemic as a story of American science's overconfidence colliding with an unprecedented virus, and of the political suppression of warnings that let the disease spread unchecked.
William H. McNeill
Argues that infectious disease has been as decisive a force in shaping human history — from the fall of Rome to the conquest of the Americas — as war, trade or ideology, explaining events historians usually attribute to human agency alone.