Foreign Bodies

The Terror of Contagion, the Ingenuity of Science

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<p><b>‘This splendid and often moving work of history… Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly amusing asides’ <i>Daily Telegraph</i><br> <br> ‘Superb’ <i>Observer</i><br> <br> ‘Extraordinary… A meticulous retelling of a terrible yet scientifically innovative period… Makes an urgent case for building a better future on our toxic past’ <i>Guardian</i><br> <br> ‘This is history of the best sort – humanly engaged but never sentimental’<i> Mail on Sunday </i></b><br><br> 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 in his <b>epic history </b>of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the <b>ingenuity of science</b>, it has happened before. <br> <br> Characteristically, with Schama the message is delivered through<b> gripping, page-turning stories</b> set in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: smallpox strikes London; cholera hits Paris; plague comes to India. Threading through the scenes of terror, suffering and hope – in hospitals and prisons, palaces and slums – are<b> an unforgettable cast of characters</b>: a philosopher-playwright burning up with smallpox in a country chateau; a vaccinating doctor paying house calls in Halifax; a woman doctor in south India driving her inoculator-carriage through the stricken streets as dead monkeys drop from the trees. But we are also in the labs when<b> great, life-saving breakthroughs</b> happen, in Paris, Hong Kong and Mumbai.<br> <br> At the heart of it all, an unsung hero: Waldemar Haffkine. <b>A gun-toting Jewish student in Odesa turned microbiologist at the Pasteur Institute</b>, hailed in England as ‘the saviour of mankind’ for vaccinating millions against cholera and bubonic plague in British India while being cold-shouldered by the medical establishment of the Raj. <b>Creator of the

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EAN

9781471169922

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

197 x 130 x 37 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Verlag / Hersteller

Simon & Schuster Ltd