Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases

by Nate Pedersen and Lydia Kang

Book Overview

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 page-turning medical stories about a particular disease or virus--smallpox, Bubonic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1523513292
• ISBN13: 9781523513291
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.6"