Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations

by Simon Schama

Book Overview

A vibrant cultural history investigating pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon Schama

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 epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity of science,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1328974839
• ISBN13: 9781328974839
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"