A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to COVID-19 Memoir_Gift_Guide When Henry Jenkins’s sawmill business

When Henry Jenkins’s sawmill business goes bust and his family loses their Indiana farm to foreclosure

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Inequities in health

A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to COVID-19 Memoir_Gift_Guide When Henry Jenkins’s sawmill businessAn incredible, humane, insightful (Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize winner) account of humankinds battles with epidemic disease, and their outsized role in deepening inequality along racial, ethnic, class, and gender linesin the vein of Medical Apartheid and Killing the Black Body. With clear eyed research and lush prose, A History of the World in Six Plagues is a breathtaking journey through the intertwined histories of contagions and systemic inequities that