Karl Lennerts Fallsammlung und die Etablierung biowissenschaftlicher Forschung in der Medizin: Ein unscheinbarer Karteikasten als wissenschaftsgeschichtlicher Akteur.
Martin Stauber, ein nicht minder begabter Freund des Astronomen und Mathematikers Johannes Kepler, ist von frühester Jugend von allem Lebendigen fasziniert.
DIE PEST: EINE SPANNENDE KULTURGESCHICHTEMit "Die Pest in Wien" liefert Hilde Schmölzer eine spannende Kulturgeschichte zum Staunen und Kopfschütteln: Fundiert und fesselnd erzählt sie von den großen Pestzeiten in Wien vom Mittelalter bis zur Neuzeit und erinnert an die katastrophalen Auswirkungen, die die Seuche auf Österreich und ganz Europa hatte.
Der Arzt und Historiker Leopold Öhler schildert die "laidige Contagion", wie die Pest auch genannt wurde, er erzählt vom Alltag während der Pestzeit, den Schwierigkeiten bei der Lebensmittelbeschaffung, der medizinischen Versorgung und den menschlichen Tragödien.
From the bestselling, Booker-shortlisted chronicler of Italy, a classic novel about a man's emotional reckoning in a changed world far from homeFrank's reclusive existence in a leafy part of London is shattered when he is summoned to Milan for the funeral of an old friend.
Read the devastating story of the Spanish flu - the twentieth century's greatest killer and discover what it can teach us about the current Covid-19 pandemic.
Rats, Lice and History by Hans Zinsser is a compelling and unique exploration of the profound, often underestimated, role of infectious diseases, particularly typhus, in shaping human civilisation.
A groundbreaking new perspective on catastrophes throughout human history, with vital lessons for our future'This book upended my understanding of the ancient world' Zoe Schlanger, author of The Light Eaters'Lizzie Wade is an exceptional journalist and a master storyteller' Ed Yong, author of An Immense WorldThe history of humanity is one of devastating, once-in-a-thousand-year events: rising seas that make land uninhabitable, decades-long droughts, civilisational collapse, epidemics like the Black Death and the Spanish Flu that reduce a city's population by fifty percent.
This volume sheds light on the social and cultural transformations that accompanied the Covid-19 crisis by looking at health and biopolitics from a philosophical and literary perspective.
"e;A tour de force"e; - New York Times Book Review"e;Ambitious, finely detailed and compulsively readable"e; - Locus"e;It is a book that feels fundamentally true; it is a book to live in"e; - Washington PostFor Kivrin Engle, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing a bullet-proof backstory.
How human institutionsmarkets, states, communities, religions, guilds and familieshave helped both to control and to exacerbate epidemics throughout history.
Welcome to London in lockdown - in 1665This timely release of a year in the life of London's greatest diarist comes with an introduction by bestselling author, Max Hastings.
Welcome to London in lockdown - in 1665This timely re-release of Defoe's classic comes with an introduction by Wellcome-Prize-winning author, Will Eaves.
A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern ageIn 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours.
Plant Disease covers all aspects of diseases of plants growing in the wild or likely to be encountered on cultivated plants in farm, forest and garden.
