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  • Imagining Early Modern Histories

    by Elizabeth Ketner, Allison Kavey ...
    Interpreting textual mediations of history in early modernity, this volume adds nuance to our understanding of the contributions fiction and fictionalizing make to the shape and texture of versions of and debates about history during that period. Geographically, the scope of the essays extends beyond Europe and England to include Asia and Africa. Contributors take a number of different approaches ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Viral Pandemics

    From Smallpox to COVID-19 & Mpox

    by Rae-Ellen Kavey, Allison Kavey ...
    This new edition of Viral Pandemics illuminates how the increasing emergence of novel viruses has combined with intensifying global interconnectedness to create an escalating spiral of viral disease. It includes an introduction to the key characteristics of viral pathogens that make them so dangerous followed by a comprehensive survey of epidemic viral disease from 1900 to the present.Now ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Health Humanities Reader

    by Allen Peterkin, Arthur W. Frank, David H. Flood, Rhonda L. Soricelli, Lisa Keränen, Michael Sappol, Shelley Wall, Martha Stoddard Holmes, Joseph N. Straus, Martin F. Norden, Felicia Cohn, Martha Montello, John Lantos, Amy Haddad, Rebecca Garden, Mark Clark, Howard Brody, Jack Coulehan, Rosemarie Tong, Sander L. Gilman, Gretchen A. Case, Alice Dreger, Marjorie Levine-Clark, Susan M. Squier, Rafael Campo, Sayantani DasGupta, Jonathan M. Metzl, Daniel Goldberg, Maren Grainger-Monsen, Thomas R. Cole, Benjamin Saxton, E. Ann Kaplan, Jerald Winakur, Bradley Lewis, Anne Hudson Jones, Michael Rowe, Ian Williams, Tod Chambers, Raymond C. Barfield, Lucy Selman, Jeffrey P. Bishop, Audrey Shafer, Catherine Belling, Paul Root Wolpe, Jeff Nisker, Julie M. Aultman, Michael Blackie, Erin Gentry Lamb, Alan Bleakley, Jay Baruch, Lisa I. Iezzoni, Bernice Hausman, Allison B. Kavey, Rebecca J. Hester ...
    Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice.In ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Monstrous Progeny

    A History of the Frankenstein Narratives

    by Lester D. Friedman, Allison B. Kavey ...
    Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein is its own type of monster mythos that will not die, a corpus whose parts keep getting harvested to animate new artistic creations. What makes this tale so adaptable and so resilient that, nearly 200 years later, it remains vitally relevant in a culture radically different from the one that spawned its birth?Monstrous Progeny takes readers on a fascinating ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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  • Viruses, Plagues, and History

    Past, Present and Future

    by Michael B. A. Oldstone, M.D. ...
    The story of viruses and humanity is a story of fear and ignorance, of grief and heartbreak, and of great bravery and sacrifice. Michael Oldstone tells all these stories as he illuminates the history of the devastating diseases that have tormented humanity, focusing mostly on the most famous viruses. Oldstone begins with smallpox, polio, and measles. Nearly 300 million people were killed by ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Pandemics

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Peter C. Doherty ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Pandemics. The word conjures up images of horrific diseases sweeping the globe and killing everyone in their path. But such highly lethal illnesses almost never create pandemics. The reality is deadly serious but far more subtle. In Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Peter Doherty, who won the Nobel Prize for his work on how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells, offers an ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Vaccine Nation

    Science, reason and the threat to 200 years of progress

    by Raina MacIntyre ...
    'This book tells the story of how vaccines transformed the public health landscape and suggests what we might do to restore public trust in their e?cacy and safety.' Professor Trish Greenhalgh OBE, University of OxfordVaccine Nation, from world-leading epidemiologist Raina MacIntyre, examines the history of vaccines, how vaccines work, vaccine safety, public policy, new technologies like mRNA and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Viruses

    The Invisible Enemy

    by Dorothy H. Crawford ...
    Series series Oxford Landmark Science
    For all our hubris, humans can be felled rapidly by an invisible enemy - viruses. All around us are minute entities that can damage and kill: the millions of viruses that pervade the natural world. Our bodies harbour many that we have long tolerated, but a new one, that jumps into humans from another species, can be lethal - as we have seen most recently with the virus responsible for COVID-19. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Vaccines E-Book

    Vaccines E-Book

    by Walter A. Orenstein, Paul A. Offit, Kathryn M. Edwards, Stanley A. Plotkin ...
    From the development of each vaccine to its use in reducing disease, Plotkin's Vaccines, 7th Edition, provides the expert information you need to provide optimal care to your patients. This award-winning text offers a complete understanding of each disease, as well as the latest knowledge of both existing vaccines and those currently in research and development. Described by Bill Gates as "an ... Read more

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  • COVID-19

    Separating Fact from Fiction

    by Anirban Mahapatra ...
    In early 2020, our lives were upended by a new virus that caused the most severe pandemic in over a century. In the span of a few weeks, even visiting a grocery store became a task in risk assessment. Cities and countries across the world closed their borders for their own citizens, as well as foreigners. Newspapers carried alarming accounts of rapidly rising numbers of COVID-positive cases, ... Read more

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  • Plotkin's Vaccines,E-Book

    by Walter A. Orenstein, Paul A. Offit, Kathryn M. Edwards, Stanley A. Plotkin ...
    **Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles as an Essential Purchase in Infectious Disease**From the latest vaccination evidence, recommendations, and protocols . . . to new vaccine development and the use of vaccines in reducing disease, Plotkin's Vaccines, 8th Edition, covers every aspect of vaccination. Now completely revised and updated from cover to cover, this award-winning text continues to ... Read more

    $332.09 USD