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

Title: Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations Author: Simon Schama ISBN: 9781328974839 Publisher: Ecco Published: 2023 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher History 1563321 Publisher Description: 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, it has happened before. Characteristically, Schama's message is delivered through gripping, page-turning stories set in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: smallpox strikes London; cholera hits Paris; plague c