
Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.
Add to Cart failed.
Please try again later
Add to Wish List failed.
Please try again later
Remove from wishlist failed.
Please try again later
Adding to library failed
Please try again
Follow podcast failed
Please try again
Unfollow podcast failed
Please try again
LIMITED TIME OFFER
3 months free
Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime.
Buy for $17.19
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use, License, and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
-
Narrated by:
-
Chris Sorensen
-
By:
-
Irwin W. Sherman
This book covers the history of 12 important diseases and addresses public health responses and societal upheavals.
- Chronicles the ways disease outbreaks shaped traditions and institutions of Western civilization.
- Explains the effects, causes, and outcomes from past epidemics.
- Describes a dozen diseases to show how disease control either was achieved or failed.
- Makes clear the interrelationship between diseases and history.
- Presents material in a compelling, clear, and jargon-free prose for a wide audience.
- Provides a picture of the best practices for dealing with disease outbreaks.
Listeners also enjoyed...




















People who viewed this also viewed...




And illuminating book.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Several of the chapters may take their name from one disease or another. Still, the author skillfully relates some to other diseases that have had similar impacts, such as the twin curses of porphyria and hemophilia that have plagued the royal families of Europe.
Twelve Disease will take you on a whirlwind tour and leave you contemplating the impact not just of diseases but of other natural events on our history that, with the hubris of our species, consider to be of our own making.
A Beautiful, Cross-Disciplinary Study
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I truly wanted to like this book. I have found other books on medical history I have enjoyed more. There is a lot of information here and a really interesting part that nearly foreshadows the COVID pandemic is a way that was eerily correct.
I really wanted to like this more than I did.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.