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Pandemic Century One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris
ISBN: HB: 9781787381216, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
392 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet, despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us b...
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No Matter Where the Journey Takes Me One Man's Quest for a Leprosy-Free World
ISBN: HB: 9781787381377, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
336 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Leprosy has tormented mankind since records began. For much of its long history it was without cure – a disfiguring disease that stigmatised those it affected, isolating them from society. Today there is an effective treatment,...
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Sick-Note Britain How Social Problems Became Medical Issues
ISBN: HB: 9781787381223, Hurst Publishers, February 2019
368 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The NHS is stretched to its limits. Yet doctors are writing 10 million sick-notes a year for people they cannot "fix", while patients with treatable diseases queue for appointments. This is Britain's grave error: our hyper-medi...
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Polio The Odyssey of Eradication
ISBN: HB: 9781849049566, Hurst Publishers, June 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In 1988, the World Health Organization launched a twelve-year campaign to wipe out polio. Thirty years and several billion dollars over budget later, the campaign grinds on, vaccinating millions of children and hoping that each...
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Lifeblood How to Change the World, One Dead Mosquito at a Time
ISBN: PB: 9781849041577, Hurst Publishers, September 2011
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! One day in 2006, the rich, well connected but very private philanthropist, Ray Chambers, flicked through the holiday snaps of his friend, the development economist Jeffrey Sachs, and remarked on the placid beauty of a group of...
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