English | 2022 | ISBN: 0197659624 | 428 pages | True EPUB | 6.17 MB Covid-19 has given renewed, urgent attention to "the pandemic" as a devastating, recurrent global phenomenon. Today the term is freely and widely used-but in reality, it has a long and contested history, centred on South Asia. Christopher Hamlin, "Cholera: The Biography" English | 2009 | ISBN: 019954624X | 355 pages | EPUB | 3.4 MB Cholera is a frightening disease. Victims are wracked by stomach cramps and suffer intense diarrhoea. Death can come within hours. Kari Nixon, "Quarantine Life from Cholera to COVID-19" English | 2021 | ISBN: 1982172460 | 304 pages | MOBI | 2.8 MB For readers of Mary Roach and Adam Diamond, an innovative look at the histories of different epidemics and what it meant for society, alongside what lessons different diseases have to teach us as society battles the novel Coronavirus. |