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Fever

By Sonia Shah

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Fever

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"[A] tour-de-force." -The New York Times "The Fever is a vivid and compelling history with a message that's entirely relevant today." -Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction Renowned science journalist Sonia Shah explores the surprising history of a disease that has haunted humanity since long before the pandemics of our own time. In recent years, malaria has emerged as a cause célèbre for voguish philanthropists. Bill Gates, Bono, and Laura Bush are only a few of the personalities who have lent their names-and opened their pocketbooks-in hopes of curing the disease. Still, at a time when the newly emergent COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the high cost of public health failures into stark relief, why aren't we doing more to eradicate one of our oldest foes? And how does a parasitic disease that we've known how to prevent for more than a century still infect 500 million people every year, killing nearly one million of them? In The Fever, prizewinning journalist Sonia Shah sets out to answer these questions, delivering a timely, inquisitive chronicle of the illness and its effect on human history. Over the centuries, she finds, we've placed our hopes in a panoply of drugs and technologies, only to find them dashed. From the settling of the New World to the construction of the Panama Canal, through wars and the advances of the Industrial Revolution, Shah tracks malaria's jagged ascent and the tragedies in its wake, revealing a parasite every bit as persistent as the insects that carry it. Combining lucid prose and original reporting from Panama, Malawi, Cameroon, India, and elsewhere, The Fever captures the curiously fascinating, utterly devastating history of one of humanity's most dogged foes-yielding essential lessons for our own time.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
320
Release Date:
2011-06-21
Publication Date:
2011-06-21
Publisher:
Picador Paper
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
03125730140274892618
ISBN13:
9780312573010
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
453 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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