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—Uché Blackstock, New York Times bestselling author of Legacy
"If everyone read Edna Bonhomme’s incredible, humane, insightful book—and I hope they do—we might stand a chance of actually breaking the cycle of neglect and panic."
—Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the New York Times bestsellers I Contain Multitudes and An Immense World
"Edna Bonhomme narrates centuries of the human-microbial dance, laying out how our destinies, liberties, and values are determined by how humans negotiate life on earth with our smallest living neighbors. Brilliant, tender and illuminating."
—Steven W. Thrasher, PhD, author of the award-winning book The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
“An expansive portraiture of how colonialism and confinement have influenced our understanding of illness and humanity. Thankfully, due to the author's talent and sheer strength in combining personal narrative with history, this book is also tender as it tackles some of the most stigmatized subjects of our time.”
—Morgan Jerkins, New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing
"Bonhomme’s frank, timely critique of the Western medical field and our faltering health care system reveals how it is deeply entangled with colonialism and capitalism."
—BookPage (starred review)
"Engaging and poignant."
—Salon
"The lessons offered in A History of the World in Six Plagues could not be more urgent."
—The Baffler
"A fierce polemic arguing that minorities and the poor suffer when diseases rage because governments and the medical profession give them short shrift... Searing."
—Kirkus
“This meticulously researched book shows us the ways that contagious illness frustrates humankind's instinct for control, and how people have found ways to care for one another in the worst of circumstances. A powerful book that shines a light on the parts of life we'd rather ignore, and the beauty that can arise from horror."
—Sarah Jaffe, author of From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution
"Equal Parts intimate portrait of illness and piercing analysis of our socio-political predicament. From empires to modern states, no civilization escapes the consequences of a plague. Let this book be a guide for our pandemic past, present, and probable--but by no means inescapable--future."
—George Aumoithe, Assistant Professor of History at Harvard University
About the Author
Review:
3.0 out of 5 stars Engaging until it wasn't
Some of this book was enlightening and educational. In no way did it live up to the title. The plagues covered included cholera, sleeping disease, influenza, ebola, HIV/AIDS, and covid-19, which all disproportionately affect black people. This book also turned into a personal description at the end that didn't follow the title. Capitalism, the health care system, and stereotypes all contribute to how these diseases are treated and in preventing these diseases, This wasn't what I was hoping it would be, based on the title and description.
1.0 out of 5 stars This is what DEI writing reads like . . .
Oh yea . . . DEI . . . in the real world . . .this would not even make a decent report much less a book. I'm a former college professor (hard science, not fluff like this) and published writer and am embarrassed by this. My kid (as a sophomore at a private school in Nor Cal) researched, wrote, and edited better then this. Content, style, organization . . . this is a poor example of publishing.
2.0 out of 5 stars not as expected
"history" covers approximately 200 years and includes an unnecessarily long section on how Virginia Woolf weathered the Flu in 1918. wtf
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Description:
Editorial Reviews
Review
—Uché Blackstock, New York Times bestselling author of Legacy
"If everyone read Edna Bonhomme’s incredible, humane, insightful book—and I hope they do—we might stand a chance of actually breaking the cycle of neglect and panic."
—Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the New York Times bestsellers I Contain Multitudes and An Immense World
"Edna Bonhomme narrates centuries of the human-microbial dance, laying out how our destinies, liberties, and values are determined by how humans negotiate life on earth with our smallest living neighbors. Brilliant, tender and illuminating."
—Steven W. Thrasher, PhD, author of the award-winning book The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
“An expansive portraiture of how colonialism and confinement have influenced our understanding of illness and humanity. Thankfully, due to the author's talent and sheer strength in combining personal narrative with history, this book is also tender as it tackles some of the most stigmatized subjects of our time.”
—Morgan Jerkins, New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing
"Bonhomme’s frank, timely critique of the Western medical field and our faltering health care system reveals how it is deeply entangled with colonialism and capitalism."
—BookPage (starred review)
"Engaging and poignant."
—Salon
"The lessons offered in A History of the World in Six Plagues could not be more urgent."
—The Baffler
"A fierce polemic arguing that minorities and the poor suffer when diseases rage because governments and the medical profession give them short shrift... Searing."
—Kirkus
“This meticulously researched book shows us the ways that contagious illness frustrates humankind's instinct for control, and how people have found ways to care for one another in the worst of circumstances. A powerful book that shines a light on the parts of life we'd rather ignore, and the beauty that can arise from horror."
—Sarah Jaffe, author of From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution
"Equal Parts intimate portrait of illness and piercing analysis of our socio-political predicament. From empires to modern states, no civilization escapes the consequences of a plague. Let this book be a guide for our pandemic past, present, and probable--but by no means inescapable--future."
—George Aumoithe, Assistant Professor of History at Harvard University
About the Author
Review:
3.0 out of 5 stars Engaging until it wasn't
Some of this book was enlightening and educational. In no way did it live up to the title. The plagues covered included cholera, sleeping disease, influenza, ebola, HIV/AIDS, and covid-19, which all disproportionately affect black people. This book also turned into a personal description at the end that didn't follow the title. Capitalism, the health care system, and stereotypes all contribute to how these diseases are treated and in preventing these diseases, This wasn't what I was hoping it would be, based on the title and description.
1.0 out of 5 stars This is what DEI writing reads like . . .
Oh yea . . . DEI . . . in the real world . . .this would not even make a decent report much less a book. I'm a former college professor (hard science, not fluff like this) and published writer and am embarrassed by this. My kid (as a sophomore at a private school in Nor Cal) researched, wrote, and edited better then this. Content, style, organization . . . this is a poor example of publishing.
2.0 out of 5 stars not as expected
"history" covers approximately 200 years and includes an unnecessarily long section on how Virginia Woolf weathered the Flu in 1918. wtf
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