Best History Books about Epidemics

1
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
di John M. Barry
4,299 utenti
134 recensioni
3.9
10 Members
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4
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
di Randy Shilts
2,914 utenti
63 recensioni
½ 4.4
6 Members
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5
Uomini e parassiti: una storia ecologica
di William H. McNeill
1,876 utenti
20 recensioni
4
5 Members
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6
La peste nera
di John Kelly
1,650 utenti
59 recensioni
3.9
4 Members
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8
King Death: The Black Death and its Aftermath in Late-Medieval England
di Colin Platt
111 utenti
3 recensioni
3.1
2 Members
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9
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
di Jim Murphy
1,250 utenti
91 recensioni
4
2 Members
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10
The Black Death
di Philip Ziegler
1,310 utenti
13 recensioni
½ 3.7
2 Members
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11
Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
di Elizabeth A. Fenn
589 utenti
10 recensioni
½ 3.7
2 Members
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12
Rats, Lice and History
di Hans Zinsser
629 utenti
11 recensioni
4.1
2 Members
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13
The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866
di Charles E. Rosenberg
201 utenti
6 recensioni
4
2 Members
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14
Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe
di William Rosen
993 utenti
38 recensioni
½ 3.7
Member
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15
Disease: The Extraordinary Stories Behind History's Deadliest Killers
di Mary Dobson
258 utenti
1 recensione
4.2
Member
Luchtpint
16
Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic
di Scott Gottlieb
60 utenti
2 recensioni
3.8
Member
timspalding
18
1918. L'influenza spagnola. La pandemia che cambiò il mondo
di Laura Spinney
674 utenti
34 recensioni
3.9
Member
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20
The Day of St. Anthony's Fire
di John G. Fuller
82 utenti
2 recensioni
4
Member
bluepiano
21
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
di Laurie Garrett
1,738 utenti
27 recensioni
4.1
Member
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22
Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction
di Christian W. McMillen
73 utenti
1 recensione
3.8
Member
timspalding
23
The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story
di Richard Preston
1,719 utenti
44 recensioni
3.9
Member
Helcura
24
The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe
di Robert S. Gottfried
387 utenti
6 recensioni
½ 3.6
Member
eromsted
25
The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age
di Nathan Wolfe
288 utenti
10 recensioni
½ 3.3
Member
stellarexplorer
26
The Burdens of Disease: Epidemics and Human Response in Western History
di J.N. Hays
63 utenti
½ 3.5
Member
eromsted
27
The History of Syphilis
di Claude Quétel
50 utenti
½ 2.5
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