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- Artikelzustand
- Book Title
- Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought
- Publication Date
- 2017-02-07
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN
- 1627797467
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
ISBN-10
1627797467
ISBN-13
9781627797467
eBay Product ID (ePID)
228742057
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Get Well Soon : History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
Subject
Social History, Infectious Diseases, History, Epidemiology, Essays
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Medical, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
14.5 Oz
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-029515
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Praise for It Ended Badly : "Wright combines a deep knowledge of her subjects with an abiding love for their depravity; she chronicles their breakups with a wit as sharp as a guillotine's blade."-- People "The tone--intimate, whimsical, smart, and silly at once--continues through two millennia of stories of love lost and found. ... Wright dishes dirt on all of them... with the gleeful irreverence of your wittiest friend."-- The Boston Globe, "Jaunty, lively, and filled with references to contemporary cultural history, making this work a well-researched page-turner. Readers will get an intense dose of history, written in a not-hard-to-swallow style." --Library Journal "Wright brings a reliably sane and bitingly funny voice to a topic we never realized we wanted to know so much about: historically devastating plagues! Read this. . . .so that you can soon amuse your friends with the best dinner party conversation ever. " -- NYLON , '50 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2017' "Wright doesn't simply state gross-out facts or hold up solitary individuals as heroes. Instead, she highlights the issues that impacted our understanding of and response to medical nightmares. Leadership, religiosity, power structures, and science collide...Written with Wright's signature humorous tone, this is a grim but engaging look at some of humanity's most feared foes." -- Bust Additional Praise for Jennifer Wright and It Ended Badly "Wright combines a deep knowledge of her subjects with an abiding love for their depravity; she chronicles their breakups with a wit as sharp as a guillotine's blade." -- People "The tone--intimate, whimsical, smart, and silly at once--continues through two millennia of stories of love lost and found... Wright dishes dirt on all of them...with the gleeful irreverence of your wittiest friend recapping a particularly juicy episode of reality television." -- The Boston Globe "Immensely entertaining... If you've gone through a breakup, stock up on Haagen-Daz, block your ex's number, get drunk with your friends and buy this book." -- BUST Magazine " This is balm for the brokenhearted: we are laughing! We are learning!...Above all, It Ended Badly offers hope: for the late-night drunk texters, the doughnut smashers, and everyone else currently exhibiting bad breakup behavior." -- Kirkus "Although the 13 stories feature heartbreaking and horrific tales, Wright leaves the reader with positive and hopeful thoughts on love... The writing fits right in with the work of comedian authors Tina Fey and Chelsea Handler." --Library Journal ( starred review ) "Delightful... funny, irreverent... The book teaches even as it entertains, and applies modern psychology to the behavior of its subjects, providing both amusements and consolation to people likely in need of both." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review), "Jaunty, lively, and filled with references to contemporary cultural history, making this work a well-researched page-turner. Readers will get an intense dose of history, written in a not-hard-to-swallow style." --Library Journal "Wright brings a reliably sane and bitingly funny voice to a topic we never realized we wanted to know so much about: historically devastating plagues! Read this. . . .so that you can soon amuse your friends with the best dinner party conversation ever. " -- NYLON , '50 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2017' "Wright doesn't simply state gross-out facts or hold up solitary individuals as heroes. Instead, she highlights the issues that impacted our understanding of and response to medical nightmares. Leadership, religiosity, power structures, and science collide...Written with Wright's signature humorous tone, this is a grim but engaging look at some of humanity's most feared foes." -- Bust "Jennifer has a rare ability to make history funny, titillating, and relevant, in way I've not come across before. Her passion and enthusiasm jumps off the page and makes her most recent book Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them, a most compelling and important read." --Angela Ledgerwood, Lit Up Additional Praise for Jennifer Wright and It Ended Badly "Wright combines a deep knowledge of her subjects with an abiding love for their depravity; she chronicles their breakups with a wit as sharp as a guillotine's blade." -- People "The tone--intimate, whimsical, smart, and silly at once--continues through two millennia of stories of love lost and found... Wright dishes dirt on all of them...with the gleeful irreverence of your wittiest friend recapping a particularly juicy episode of reality television." -- The Boston Globe "Immensely entertaining... If you've gone through a breakup, stock up on Haagen-Daz, block your ex's number, get drunk with your friends and buy this book." -- BUST Magazine " This is balm for the brokenhearted: we are laughing! We are learning!...Above all, It Ended Badly offers hope: for the late-night drunk texters, the doughnut smashers, and everyone else currently exhibiting bad breakup behavior." -- Kirkus "Although the 13 stories feature heartbreaking and horrific tales, Wright leaves the reader with positive and hopeful thoughts on love... The writing fits right in with the work of comedian authors Tina Fey and Chelsea Handler." --Library Journal ( starred review ) "Delightful... funny, irreverent... The book teaches even as it entertains, and applies modern psychology to the behavior of its subjects, providing both amusements and consolation to people likely in need of both." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review), "Jaunty, lively, and filled with references to contemporary cultural history, making this work a well-researched page-turner. Readers will get an intense dose of history, written in a not-hard-to-swallow style." --Library Journal "Wright brings a reliably sane and bitingly funny voice to a topic we never realized we wanted to know so much about: historically devastating plagues! Read this. . . .so that you can soon amuse your friends with the best dinner party conversation ever. " -- NYLON , '50 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2017' Additional Praise for Jennifer Wright and It Ended Badly "Wright combines a deep knowledge of her subjects with an abiding love for their depravity; she chronicles their breakups with a wit as sharp as a guillotine's blade." -- People "The tone--intimate, whimsical, smart, and silly at once--continues through two millennia of stories of love lost and found... Wright dishes dirt on all of them...with the gleeful irreverence of your wittiest friend recapping a particularly juicy episode of reality television." -- The Boston Globe "Immensely entertaining... If you've gone through a breakup, stock up on Haagen-Daz, block your ex's number, get drunk with your friends and buy this book." -- BUST Magazine " This is balm for the brokenhearted: we are laughing! We are learning!...Above all, It Ended Badly offers hope: for the late-night drunk texters, the doughnut smashers, and everyone else currently exhibiting bad breakup behavior." -- Kirkus "Although the 13 stories feature heartbreaking and horrific tales, Wright leaves the reader with positive and hopeful thoughts on love... The writing fits right in with the work of comedian authors Tina Fey and Chelsea Handler." --Library Journal ( starred review ) "Delightful... funny, irreverent... The book teaches even as it entertains, and applies modern psychology to the behavior of its subjects, providing both amusements and consolation to people likely in need of both." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
614.4
Table Of Content
Only YOU can prevent plague . . . Read This Book Introduction 1 Elect Sane, Calm Leaders Antonine Plague 7 Frogs Don't Save Lives; Reading History Books Does Bubonic Plague 27 Try Being Nice Instead of Burning People as Witches Dancing Plague 49 Spread the Word That Vaccines Are the Best Smallpox 67 STD Shaming Leads to STD Spreading Syphilis 89 Never Glamorize Ill Health Tuberculosis 108 If You Want to Demonstrate Conventional Wisdom Is Wrong, Be Ready to Prove Your Theory Thoroughly Cholera 126 Know That One Good Person Can Make a Difference and That You Can Be That Person Leprosy 144 If You Are Diseased, Don't Deliberately Infect Other People Typhoid 162 Censorship Kills Spanish Flu 179 Keep Track of Medical Advances Because They Are Happening Faster than Ever Encephalitis Lethargica 200 Don't Listen to Fast-Talking Charlatans with Few Medical Credentials Lobotomies 216 Understand That When Communities, Leaders, and Scientists Work Together, We Can Save the World Polio 239 Learn from the Past Epilogue 259 Notes 273 Sources 299 Acknowledgments 319 Illustration Credits 321
Synopsis
A witty, irreverent tour of history's worst plagues--from the Antonine Plague, to leprosy, to polio--and a celebration of the heroes who fought them In 1518, in a small town in Alsace, Frau Troffea began dancing and didn't stop. She danced until she was carried away six days later, and soon thirty-four more villagers joined her. Then more. In a month more than 400 people had been stricken by the mysterious dancing plague. In late-seventeenth-century England an eccentric gentleman founded the No Nose Club in his gracious townhome--a social club for those who had lost their noses, and other body parts, to the plague of syphilis for which there was then no cure. And in turn-of-the-century New York, an Irish cook caused two lethal outbreaks of typhoid fever, a case that transformed her into the notorious Typhoid Mary. Throughout time, humans have been terrified and fascinated by the diseases history and circumstance have dropped on them. Some of their responses to those outbreaks are almost too strange to believe in hindsight. Get Well Soon delivers the gruesome, morbid details of some of the worst plagues we've suffered as a species, as well as stories of the heroic figures who selflessly fought to ease the suffering of their fellow man. With her signature mix of in-depth research and storytelling, and not a little dark humor, Jennifer Wright explores history's most gripping and deadly outbreaks, and ultimately looks at the surprising ways they've shaped history and humanity for almost as long as anyone can remember.
LC Classification Number
RA649.W75 2017
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