by Sonia Shah
ALSO BY SONIA SHAH
The Fever: How Malaria Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World’s Poorest Patients
Crude: The Story of Oil
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sonia Shah is a science journalist and the author of The Fever: How Malaria Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years, which was long-listed for the Royal Society’s Winton Prize for Science Books; The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World’s Poorest Patients; and Crude: The Story of Oil. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Scientific American, and elsewhere. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Epigraph
Introduction: Cholera’s Child
The microbes’ comeback
1. The Jump
Crossing the species barrier at wet markets, pig farms, and South Asian wetlands
2. Locomotion
The global dissemination of pathogens through canals, steamships, and jet airplanes
3. Filth
The rising tide of feculence, from nineteenth-century New York City to the slums of Port-au-Prince and the factory farms of south China
4. Crowds
The amplification of epidemics in the global metropolis
5. Corruption
Private interests versus public health, or, how Aaron Burr and the Manhattan Company poisoned New York City with cholera
6. Blame
Cholera riots, AIDS denialism, and vaccine resistance
7. The Cure
The suppression of John Snow and the limits of biomedicine
8. The Revenge of the Sea
The Cholera Paradigm
9. The Logic of Pandemics
The lost history of ancient pandemics
10. Tracking the Next Contagion
Reimagining our place in a microbial world
Glossary
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Photographs
Also by Sonia Shah
A Note About the Author
Copyright
Sarah Crichton Books
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
18 West 18th Street, New York 10011
Copyright © 2016 by Sonia Shah
All rights reserved
First edition, 2016
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Shah, Sonia.
Pandemic: tracking contagions, from cholera to ebola and beyond / Sonia Shah.
pages cm
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-374-12288-1 (hardback)—ISBN 978-0-374-70874-0 (e-book)
1. Communicable diseases—Epidemiology—History. 2. Public health surveillance. I. Title.
RA643 .S52 2016
362.1—dc23
2015010246
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