Name: When Plague Strikes
ISBN: 9780064461955

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Why This Clicks

Disease and Change

Trace how plague, smallpox, and AIDS reshaped societies and medical knowledge.

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A clear-eyed look at three diseases with outsized historical consequences
The human and political stakes of infectious disease

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Attention to social, economic, and political effects
A compassionate account of death tolls and medical advances

Book Details

Authors: James Cross Giblin
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: April 11, 1997
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Illness & Injury · Infectious Diseases
Reading lane: Illness & Injury

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Animal Facts
Girls & Young Women
Illness & Injury
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About This Book

Compassionate and arresting, this exploration of three major diseases that have changed the course of history—the bubonic plague, smallpox, and AIDS—chronicles their fearsome death toll, their lasting social, economic, and political implications, and how medical knowledge and treatments have advanced as a result of the crises they have occasioned. "A book that would serve well for reports, but it is also a fascinating read."—SLJ. Best Books of 1995 (SLJ) Notable Children's T...

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Compassionate and arresting, this exploration of three major diseases that have changed the course of history—the bubonic plague, smallpox, and AIDS—chronicles their fearsome death toll, their lasting social, economic, and political implications, and how medical knowledge and treatments have advanced as a result of the crises they have occasioned. "A book that would serve well for reports, but it is also a fascinating read."—SLJ. Best Books of 1995 (SLJ) Notable Children's Trade Books in Social Studies 1996 (NCSS/CBC) 1995 Young Adult Editors’ Choices (BL) 1995 Top of the List Non Fiction (BL) 1996 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA) Notable Children’s Books of 1996 (ALA)