Patient Zero
A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
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Narrateur(s):
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Hillary Huber
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Auteur(s):
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Lydia Kang MD
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Nate Pedersen
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From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks—how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us.
Written in the authors’ lively and accessible style, chapters include gripping medical stories about a particular disease or virus—smallpox, Bubonic plague, polio, HIV—that combine “Patient Zero” narratives, or the human stories behind outbreaks, with historical examinations of missteps, milestones, scientific theories, and more.
Learn the tragic stories of Patient Zeros throughout history, such as Mabalo Lokela, who contracted Ebola while on vacation in 1976, and the Lewis Baby on London’s Broad Street, the first to catch cholera in an 1854 outbreak that led to a major medical breakthrough. Interspersed are origin stories of a different sort—how a rye fungus in 1951 turned a small village in France into a phantasmagoric scene reminiscent of Burning Man. Plus the uneasy history of human autopsy, how the HIV virus has been with us for at least a century, and more.
©2021 Lydia Kang, MD and Nate Pedersen (P)2022 Workman Publishing CompanyCe que les critiques en disent
"[A] rich and thought-provoking book... It's also a profound reconsideration of our common understanding of our most famous stories of sickness and science." —Salon.com
“A thorough and morbidly funny study of some of the world’s deadliest diseases… Readers will be swept away by this energetic and enlightening survey.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
“A fascinating foray into the etiology of fevers, flus, and other foul febrilities.” —James Nestor, New York Times bestselling author of Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
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Au global3 out of 5 stars
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Performance2 out of 5 stars
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars
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- 2025-05-19
Reads like an AI
This book reads like it was written and narrated by AI. Small things like “China CDC” (not Chinese CDC) or Trump calling COVID “Chinese Virus” when the actual quote repeated over and over and over by Trump himself, is “China Virus”. It’s small, but details matter if you care about scientific accuracy.
The book is full of great info, and I enjoyed that part, but…yeah
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