Modern Epidemics

From the Spanish Flu to COVID-19

Salvador Macip, Julie Wark

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Polity Press
19 March 2021

Politics & government; Medicine; Public health & preventive medicine

COVID-19 has made us all aware of the fact that we live in a world full of invisible enemies. Normally, we don’t even realize they’re there, but from time to time one of these microscopic creatures becomes powerful enough to turn everything upside down. What are these invisible enemies, and how can we prepare ourselves for the pandemics of the future?

A specialist in the cellular biology of diseases, Salvador Macip explains, in a language everyone can understand, what it means to share the planet with millions of microbes – some wonderful allies, others terrible foes. He provides a concise account of epidemics that changed history, and focuses on the great modern plagues that are still causing millions of deaths every year, from influenza, TB and malaria to COVID-19. Macip also examines the methods we have used – from vaccines to improved sanitation and social distancing – to try to control these invisible enemies.

This authoritative overview of modern epidemics and the pathogens that cause them will be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand our world today, a world in which some of the greatest threats to the human species come from the invisible microbes with which we share this planet.

By: Salvador Macip
Translated by: Julie Wark
Imprint: Polity Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9781509546572
ISBN 10: 150954657X
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 19 March 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Salvador Macip is head of the Mechanisms of Cancer and Ageing Laboratory in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester and professor at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

Reviews for Modern Epidemics: From the Spanish Flu to COVID-19

'A timely, authoritative and reader-friendly account of pandemics past and present. One that is particularly welcome because it gives a broad and balanced account that is devoid of Anglo-American bias, providing fascinating insights into the very important events associated with the defeat of the last Inca Emperor Atahualpa, with Chagas' disease in Bolivia, and with the Mexican origin of the 2009 influenza pandemic, as well as explaining the latter's malignant effects on our preparedness for COVID-19.' Hugh Pennington, Emeritus Professor of Bacteriology at the University of Aberdeen