{"product_id":"a-history-of-the-world-in-six-plagues","title":"A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN SIX PLAGUES","description":"\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e.cs199E8EB{12pt;font-weight:bold;color:#181B21;font-style:italic;Segoe UI;} .cs1844654{text-align:left;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0pt} .cs47DB3EB{12pt;font-weight:normal;color:#181B21;font-style:italic;Segoe UI;} .cs95B300B{11pt;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-style:normal;Calibri;} .csDF76FDB{12pt;font-weight:normal;color:#181B21;font-style:normal;Segoe UI;} .cs8130CDB{12pt;font-weight:bold;color:#181B21;font-style:normal;Segoe UI;} .cs13DCAC4{text-align:left;margin:12pt 0pt 12pt 0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0pt} .cs3388614{text-align:left;margin:0pt 0pt 10pt 0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0pt}\u003c\/style\u003e\r\n\t\r\n\t\u003cp class=\"cs13DCAC4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs199E8EB\"\u003eA History of the World in Six Plagues\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs8130CDB\"\u003e unveils a powerful and unsettling truth: epidemic diseases enter the world by chance, but they become catastrophic by human design.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs1844654\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csDF76FDB\"\u003e'If everyone read Edna Bonhomme's incredible, humane, insightful book - and I hope they do - we might stand a chance' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs8130CDB\"\u003eEd Yong, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs47DB3EB\"\u003eAn Immense World\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs1844654\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csDF76FDB\"\u003e'Poignant' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs199E8EB\"\u003eSalon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs1844654\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csDF76FDB\"\u003e'Could not be more urgent' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs199E8EB\"\u003eThe Baffler\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs1844654\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csDF76FDB\"\u003eIn this groundbreaking work, Bonhomme explores how six pivotal diseases - Cholera, HIV\/AIDS, the Spanish Flu, Sleeping Sickness, Ebola and COVID-19 - have shaped the trajectory of human history. Through vivid storytelling and rigorous research, she reveals how pandemics have consistently widened the gaps in racial, economic and sociopolitical divides, from the slave ships of the Atlantic to today's fractured healthcare systems.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs1844654\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csDF76FDB\"\u003eHow did a colonial obsession with sugar amplify the devastation of Cholera? Why did sleeping sickness become a weapon of empire in Tanzania? And how has COVID-19 magnified inequities in our modern, interconnected world?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs3388614\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csDF76FDB\"\u003eBonhomme's incisive analysis transforms our understanding of public health, not as a neutral force but as a stage where power, policy and prejudice collide. Urgent and illuminating, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs47DB3EB\"\u003eA History of the World in Six Plagues\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csDF76FDB\"\u003e is not just a history of disease, it is a call to reimagine a more equitable future in the face of ongoing global health challenges.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs95B300B\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Books N Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49830162235632,"sku":"9780349704395","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1855\/5830\/files\/9780349704395_1.jpg?v=1781139075","url":"https:\/\/booksngifts.com.au\/products\/a-history-of-the-world-in-six-plagues","provider":"Books N Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}