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Quarantine Life from Cholera to COVID-19: What Pandemics Teach Us About Parenting, Work, Life, and Communities from the 1700s to Today

English

By (author): Kari Nixon

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.

Throughout history, there have been numerous epidemics that have threatened mankind with destruction. Diseases have the ability to highlight our shared concerns across the ages, affecting every social divide from national boundaries, economic categories, racial divisions, and beyond. Whether looking at smallpox, HIV, Ebola, or COVID-19 outbreaks, we see the same conversations arising as society struggles with the all-encompassing question: What do we do now?

Quarantine Life from Cholera to COVID-19 demonstrates that these conversations have always involved the same questions of individual liberties versus the common good, debates about rushing new and untested treatments, considerations of whether quarantines are effective to begin with, what to do about healthy carriers, and how to keep trade circulating when society shuts down.

This immensely readable social and medical history tracks different diseases and outlines their trajectory, what they meant for society, and societal questions each disease brought up, along with practical takeaways we can apply to current and future pandemicsso we can all be better prepared for whatever life throws our way. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 383g
  • Dimensions: 140 x 213mm
  • Publication Date: 22 Jul 2021
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781982172466

About Kari Nixon

Kari Nixon is a professor specializing in social reactions to infectious diseases. She works at Whitworth University where she teaches about social responses to contagion and quarantine in medical humanities and Victorian literature courses. Her work on public health has been published for lay audiences in HuffPost YES! Magazine and CNN. Her academic book Kept from All Contagion: Germ Theory Disease and the Dilemma of Human Contact was published by SUNY University Press and tracks the social history of humankinds responses to disease in Victorian literature and popular culture. She regularly teaches about zombies medical ethics the problematic pressures on the health care system and social justice issues for marginalized races and genders. She has edited numerous books on diseases in society.

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