9781797185392_

A deeply reported, insightful, and literary account of humankinds battles with epidemic disease, and their outsized role in deepening inequality along racial, ethnic, class, and gender linesin the vein of Medical Apartheid and Killing the Black Body.

Epidemic diseases enter the world by chance, but they become catastrophic by human design.

With clear-eyed research and lush prose, A History of the World in Six Plagues shows that throughout history, outbreaks of disease have been exacerbated by and gone on to further expand the racial, economic, and sociopolitical divides we allow to fester in times of good health.

Princeton-trained historian Edna Bonhommes examination of humanitys disastrous treatment of pandemic disease takes us across place and time from Port-au-Prince to Tanzania, and from plantation-era America to our modern COVID-19-scarred world to unravel shocking truths about the patterns of discrimination in the face of disease. Based on in-depth research and cultural analysis, Bonhomme explores Cholera, HIV/AIDS, the Spanish Flu, Sleeping Sickness, Ebola, and COVID-19 amidst the backdrop of unequal public policy. But much more than a remarkable history, A History of the World in Six Plaguesis also a rising call for change.

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An incredible, humane, insightful (Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize winner) account of humankinds battles with epidemic disease, and their outsized role in deepening inequality along racial, ethnic, class, and gender linesin the vein ofMedical ApartheidandKilling the Black Body.

With clear-eyed research and lush prose, A History of the World in Six Plagues is a breathtaking journey through the intertwined histories of contagions and systemic inequities that have shaped our history (Uché Blackstock, New York Times bestselling author).

Princeton-trained historian Edna Bonhommes examination of humanitys disastrous treatment of pandemic disease takes us across place and time from Port-au-Prince to Tanzania, and from plantation-era America to our modern COVID-19-scarred world to unravel shocking truths about the patterns of discrimination in the face of disease. Also a rising call to action, this tour de forcewill change the way people think about public health and histories of medicine (Dr. Tiffany N. Florvil, author of Mobilizing Black Germany).

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An “incredible, humane, insightful**” (Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize winner)** account of humankind’s battles with epidemic disease, and their outsized role in deepening inequality along racial, ethnic, class, and gender lines—in the vein ofMedical Apartheidand*Killing the Black Body*.

With clear-eyed research and lush prose, A History of the World in Six Plagues is “a breathtaking journey through the intertwined histories of contagions and systemic inequities that have shaped our history” (Uché Blackstock, New York Times bestselling author).

Princeton-trained historian Edna Bonhomme’s examination of humanity’s disastrous treatment of pandemic disease takes us across place and time from Port-au-Prince to Tanzania, and from plantation-era America to our modern COVID-19-scarred world to unravel shocking truths about the patterns of discrimination in the face of disease. Also a rising call to action, this “tour de force…will change the way people think about public health and histories of medicine” (Dr. Tiffany N. Florvil, author of Mobilizing Black Germany).

A History of the World in Six Plagues

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