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Plagues upon the Earth
Book • 2021
Plagues Upon the Earth offers a comprehensive view of how infectious diseases have shaped human history, from early origins to modern pandemics.
The book intertwines historical narratives with insights from genetics, highlighting the entanglement of disease with societal factors like slavery, colonialism, and technological progress.
It also explores how human advancements have both mitigated and exacerbated disease risks.
The book intertwines historical narratives with insights from genetics, highlighting the entanglement of disease with societal factors like slavery, colonialism, and technological progress.
It also explores how human advancements have both mitigated and exacerbated disease risks.
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as a history of disease and the way it has shaped history, politics, social life and civilization.


David Wallace-Wells

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MAHA Is a Bad Answer to a Good Question
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in the context of discussing the impact of diseases on human history.


Dwarkesh Patel

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Why Rome actually fell: plagues, slavery, & ice age — Kyle Harper
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as a brilliant new book exploring the history of disease from Homo erectus to COVID.


Tom Holland

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146. Disease vs. the rise of civilisation