Amiable's blurb on The Pandemic Century

The Pandemic Century: A History of Global Contagion from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19 | Mark Honigsbaum

I‘m fascinated by the history of medicine and health, particularly the relationships between science, culture and politics. As such, I‘ve collected a large stack of nonfiction books that directly relate to these topics. My husband refers to them as my “Disease of the Month Book Club.” So I‘ve created a challenge mostly to get these books off my shelves! If you‘d like to join the #DiseaseoftheMonthBookClub, welcome! Storygraph link in comments ⬇️

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Amiable https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/e4cd4ea0-50a5-4daf-8972-13817b3... 4mo

GinaKButler I can‘t wait to hear what you think of these! 4mo

Amiable @GinaKButler I set the Storygraph challenge dates for two full years so I don‘t get overwhelmed with death and destruction! 😀 4mo

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AnnR Interesting collection of books. I think 10 years ago, this challenge would have been right up my alley. I'll look forward to your posts. (edited) 4mo

Clare-Dragonfly @shanaqui This might interest you! 4mo

ChaoticMissAdventures What a fantastic challenge! Diseases are so interesting. I really though this one was so well done, and interesting

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

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Amiable @ChaoticMissAdventures That one is already stacked in my queue! Plus this one by the same author:

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

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marleed That‘s a great reading challenge! 4mo

Amiable @AnnR Feel free to suggest any others that would fit the challenges! I‘m always looking for more. To my husband‘s chagrin. 😬🙂 4mo

JenniferEgnor I‘m very interested in this stack. Could you maybe put up a close up photo of spine view or cove? 4mo

Amiable @JenniferEgnor If you click on the link to Storygraph in the first comment, it takes you to the challenge. I posted all of the books into the relevant prompts so you can see what they are. Let me know if you can‘t get into it and I‘ll list all of the books here! (edited) 4mo

shanaqui @Clare-Dragonfly Ooh, thank you, it does! Thank you!

Adding a rec to folks' piles, this is my favourite non-fiction about disease. Tuberculosis is my very favourite. (I'm studying for an MSc in Infectious Diseases, partly because I did my dissertation on tuberculosis when I did my biology degree, which was mostly because of this book.)

Catching Breath: The Making and Unmaking of Tuberculosis

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Amiable @shanaqui Oh, that looks good! Thanks! I‘m particularly interested in the “Spanish flu” pandemic of 1918. My great-grandmother (who died when I was 14) lived through it. I always remembered the stories she told about it and I‘ve been fascinated ever since. 4mo

Roary47 How fun! I‘d be willing to join. 🤩 4mo

Amiable @Roary47 Yay! A fellow epidemiology nerd. 😍 4mo

Chrissyreadit @Amiable wow!!! i love this!! one of my major interests also- i am joining - but if i only do some i will be happy! i am going to look at your read lists also- and what books do you recommend around Spanish Flu? 4mo

Amiable @Chrissyreadit YAY! I love that there are other weirdos out there like me who love this stuff! 🙂 So my all-time favorite book about the 1918 flu pandemic is this one:

The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History

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Amiable The Barry book is kind of the classic on the topic, I think. There‘s also this one of the Barry book is too dense for your liking:

Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It

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