Full name: Disease: The Extraordinary Stories Behind History's Deadliest Killers

Author: Mary Dobson Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9781847240149 1847240143

Miki got this at the book store for some light reading and since it was lying around I had to pick it up. Very interesting historical information regarding the diseases that have affected the world and some great information on the advances of medicine. I only wish that there was more pictures of what the diseases actually look like (is that morbid?) But sometimes the discriptions made it difficult for me to picture in my mind what it was even talking about and some of them just sound too similar to my unmedically trained mind. Just one note, make sure that you do not read this before bed because it did give me some very creepy dreams. Similar books: Flu by Gina Kolata Polio by David M. Oshinsky Scourge by Jonathan B. Tucker Scurvy by Stephen R. Bown Rats, Lice and History by Hans Zinsser Quackery by Lydia Kang Influenza by Jeremy Brown The Devil's Flu by Pete Davies The American Plague by Molly Caldwell Crosby Vaccine by Arthur Allen Plagues and Peoples by William H. McNeill The Plague Race by Edward Marriott The Great Influenza by John M. Barry The Medical Detective by Sandra Hempel Pox by Michael Willrich