The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
In The Coming Plague, Laurie Garrett examines newly emerging diseases and the global conditions that enable them to spread. Connecting public health with a world increasingly shaped by environmental and social imbalance, this wide-ranging work considers the challenges infectious threats present to modern society.
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The Coming Plague explores the emergence of new diseases and the challenges they pose to societies around the world.
Laurie Garrett considers how an interconnected, changing world can influence the appearance and spread of infectious threats.
The book presents public health as a global concern, linking disease, human systems, and environmental imbalance.
Accessible and wide-ranging, it offers context for understanding why emerging diseases remain a consequential issue.
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