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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.89 — 55,664 ratings — published 2006
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.16 — 120,423 ratings — published 1994
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,246 ratings — published 2004
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.42 — 20,237 ratings — published 2012
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.21 — 10,712 ratings — published 1994
The Demon in the Freezer (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.15 — 17,900 ratings — published 2002
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,032 ratings — published 2015
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.72 — 11,672 ratings — published 2012
Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,636 ratings — published 1999
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.39 — 29,025 ratings — published 1987
Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,157 ratings — published 2004
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,689 ratings — published 2006
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.92 — 8,048 ratings — published 2017
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,820 ratings — published 2017
Plagues and Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,967 ratings — published 1976
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.34 — 112,524 ratings — published 2010
Epidemiology (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.86 — 514 ratings — published 2000
Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,817 ratings — published 2001
The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,107 ratings — published 2008
Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,419 ratings — published 2017
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.42 — 7,633 ratings — published 2019
The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,506 ratings — published 2010
Polio: An American Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,929 ratings — published 2005
The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,338 ratings — published 2011
Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,883 ratings — published 2010
Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,055 ratings — published 2008
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.44 — 4,283 ratings — published 2016
Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.85 — 886 ratings — published 2013
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.89 — 11,403 ratings — published 2005
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.33 — 42,497 ratings — published 2021
Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,018 ratings — published 2014
Epidemiology: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.37 — 343 ratings — published 2010
The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,105 ratings — published 2003
Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,534 ratings — published 1996
The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,207 ratings — published 2001
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.40 — 129,755 ratings — published 2025
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.94 — 10,544 ratings — published 2023
Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present (Open Yale Courses)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.40 — 960 ratings — published 2019
The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,542 ratings — published 2003
Deadly Feasts: The "Prion" Controversy and the Public's Health (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,470 ratings — published 1997
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.20 — 88,073 ratings — published 2003
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.18 — 30,994 ratings — published 2016
Smallpox: The Death of a Disease - The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.10 — 368 ratings — published 2009
Viruses, Plagues, and History (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,297 ratings — published 1998
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.04 — 450,327 ratings — published 1997
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.13 — 794,666 ratings — published 2010
Epidemiology: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 3.93 — 148 ratings — published 2002
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,898 ratings — published 1999
A Planet of Viruses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,000 ratings — published 2011
The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemiology)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,784 ratings — published 2011
“Concerning intelligence, "the capability to identify what to carefully examine—often a decision driven by mathematical analysis—has become as essential as the capacity to gather the intelligence itself." -- K. Lee Lerner. Cornwall, U.K. May, 2003.”
― Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence and Security, 3 volume set
― Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence and Security, 3 volume set
“Any subject whose history ranges from pump handles on London's Broad Street, tide tables, naval gunfire and models of social segregation is bound to have rich parentage.
It took 'a village' to beget computational epidemiology: as a true multi-disciplinary subject, it evolved at the crossroads of mathematics, computation, statistics and medicine, with some contributions from systems biology, virology, microbiology, game theory, geography and perhaps even the social sciences.”
― Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease: With Applications in Python
It took 'a village' to beget computational epidemiology: as a true multi-disciplinary subject, it evolved at the crossroads of mathematics, computation, statistics and medicine, with some contributions from systems biology, virology, microbiology, game theory, geography and perhaps even the social sciences.”
― Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease: With Applications in Python
