TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schama,Simon
TI  - FOREIGN BODIES : : PANDEMICS, VACCINES AND THE HEALTH OF NATIONS 
SN  - 9780063308510
U1  - 614.49 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 
KW  - World health.
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Health aspects.
KW  - Pandemics
KW  - History
KW  - Zoonoses
KW  - Epidemiology.
KW  - Vaccination
KW  - History.
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with COVID-19. But as Simon Schama shows, through stories set in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it has happened before: smallpox strikes London; cholera hits Paris; plague comes to India. Threading through the scenes of terror, suffering and hope are an unforgettable cast of characters: a philosopher-playwright burning up with smallpox in a country chateau; a vaccinating doctor paying house calls in Halifax. But we are also in the labs when great, life-saving breakthroughs happen, in Paris, Hong Kong and Mumbai. "Foreign bodies" crosses borders between east and west, Asia and Europe, the worlds of rich and poor, politics and science. Its story carries with it the credo of its author on the interconnectedness of humanity and nature; of the powerful and the people.
ER  -