When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS by James Cross Giblin, David Frampton

When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS

James Cross Giblin, David Frampton

224 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging dark informative slow-paced
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Compassionate and arresting, this exploration of three major diseases that have changed the course of history—the bubonic plague, smallpox, and AIDS—chronicles their fearsome death toll, their lasting social, economic, and political implications, ...

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