#norman osborne voice i am something of a disease myself

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re: the last anon (not me i'm just always hunting for book recs) anything else for medical history? i have the two books you've listed already on my tbr and would b interested in something in the realm of infectious disease/historical pandemics or something along the lines of the immortal life of henrietta lacks/the radium girls/books about phossy jaw where it's also a bit of a human interest piece of this helps at all

Diseases? I GOT YOU COVERED. I love diseases. I have 2 whole levels of my built-in bookshelf containing nothing but books about diseases. I got malaria, cholera, influenzas, fevers, smallpox, ebola, polio, the black death, etc.

Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire by William Rosen

The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic — and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson

Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It by Gina Kolata

The Demon Under the Microscope by Thomas Hager

The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World by Laura Spinney

Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky

The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years by Sonia Shah

Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 by Elizabeth A. Fenn

The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston

#norman osborne voice i am something of a disease myself #i also have a bunch of these on my gdrive #nedlittle #assbox