{"product_id":"history-of-the-world-in-six-plagues-book-edna-bonhomme-9781982197834","title":"A History of the World in Six Plagues","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn \"incredible, humane, insightful\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\" (Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize winner)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eaccount of humankind's battles with epidemic disease, and their outsized role in deepening inequality along racial, ethnic, class, and gender lines--in the vein of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMedical Apartheid\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eand\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKilling the Black Body\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With clear-eyed research and lush prose, \u003ci\u003eA History of the World in Six Plagues\u003c\/i\u003e is \"a breathtaking journey through the intertwined histories of contagions and systemic inequities that have shaped our history\" (Uché Blackstock, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Princeton-trained historian Edna Bonhomme's examination of humanity's disastrous treatment of pandemic disease takes us across place and time from Port-au-Prince to Tanzania, and from plantation-era America to our modern COVID-19-scarred world to unravel shocking truths about the patterns of discrimination in the face of disease. Also a rising call to action, this \"tour de force...will change the way people think about public health and histories of medicine\" (Dr. Tiffany N. Florvil, author of \u003ci\u003eMobilizing Black Germany\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51173667897617,"sku":"NIN9781982197834","price":28.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51430214664465,"sku":"CIN1982197838G","price":23.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":52890854195473,"sku":"CIN1982197838LN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1982197838.jpg?v=1751316018","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/history-of-the-world-in-six-plagues-book-edna-bonhomme-9781982197834","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}