Christian W. McMillen

Autor von Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction

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Christian W. McMillen is assistant professor of history and American studies, University of Virginia.

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Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction (2016) 72 Exemplare

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Gebräuchlichste Namensform: McMillen, Christian W.
Geburtstag: 1969
Geschlecht: male
Ausbildung: Earlham College (BA|History|1993)
University of Montanta (MA|History|1998)
Yale University (PhD|History|2004)
Berufe: historian
professor
Organisationen: University of Virginia (assistant professor, Dept. of History)

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Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short… von Christian W. McMillen

A solid, accessible introduction to pandemics in world history, with a case study of seven major pandemic diseases: plague, smallpox, malaria, cholera, TB, flu, and HIV/AIDS. Christian McMillen does a good job of using each case study to illuminate a different aspect of how pandemics spread, with the discussion of failures in public health/governmental responses to malaria and HIV/AIDS perhaps the most illuminating in the present moment.

Reading the epilogue (written in 2016), which in just a few paragraphs predicts most of the failures in governmental/global health reaction to COVID-19, is quite the trip.… (mehr)

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