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Christian W. McMillen
Christian W. McMillen is an Associate Dean for the Social Sciences and Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction, Discovering Tuberculosis: A Global History, 1900 to the Present and Making Indian Law: The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory. He lives in Charlottesville, VA.
Books by Christian W. McMillen
“The most basic definition is that a pandemic is a very large epidemic which affects a large number of people across a swath of time and space. Generally, pandemics cross national boundaries, and often modern pandemics cross oceanic boundaries. That’s the way I’ve defined it in my book. The book looks at how pandemics unfold over time and how societies deal with them, with chapters focusing on HIV, cholera, malaria, smallpox and tuberculosis. I show how breakthroughs in medicine changed our relationship to these diseases. I draw a distinction between acute pandemics, like cholera, and chronic ones, like tuberculosis. Cholera takes over people’s lives relatively quickly, whereas tuberculosis is a longstanding chronic pandemic; it’s never gone away.” Read more...
Christian W. McMillen, Historian
Interviews with Christian W. McMillen
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Faith, Reason, and the Plague in Seventeenth Century Tuscany
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Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
by James Daschuk -
3
The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria
by Randall Packard -
4
American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
by Nancy Bristow -
5
Epidemic Invasions: Yellow Fever and the Limits of Cuban Independence, 1878–1930
by Mariola Espinosa
The best books on Pandemics, recommended by Christian W. McMillen
The best books on Pandemics, recommended by Christian W. McMillen
With coronavirus causing widespread panic, we would do well to educate ourselves about the history of pandemics and disease. University of Virginia historian and associate dean Christian W. McMillen, author of Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction, recommends the best introductions to the subject.
Interviews where books by Christian W. McMillen were recommended
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1
Faith, Reason, and the Plague in Seventeenth Century Tuscany
by Carlo Cippolla -
2
Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
by James Daschuk -
3
The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria
by Randall Packard -
4
American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
by Nancy Bristow -
5
Epidemic Invasions: Yellow Fever and the Limits of Cuban Independence, 1878–1930
by Mariola Espinosa
The best books on Pandemics, recommended by Christian W. McMillen
The best books on Pandemics, recommended by Christian W. McMillen
With coronavirus causing widespread panic, we would do well to educate ourselves about the history of pandemics and disease. University of Virginia historian and associate dean Christian W. McMillen, author of Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction, recommends the best introductions to the subject.
