Audible.com College Course: Global Histories of Disease

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Audible.com's editors have created 12 college courses and required reading for the courses. Course #8 is Global Histories of Disease.

Audible.com: We just love the name of this course, and find its subject matter grimly fascinating. Tracking the history of mass epidemics from ancient times to today, this course also speculates on what's in store for our future as a species.

The Books:

Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe by William Rosen
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus by Bill Wasik
Relentless: The Search For Typhoid Mary by Joan Meijer
Fever by Mary Beth Keane
Yellow Fever, Black Goddess: The Coevolution Of People And Plagues by Christopher Wills
The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis by Thomas Goetz
Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries by Molly Caldwell Crosby
Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky
The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox by Jennifer Lee Carrell
The Fatal Strain: On the Trail of Avian Flu and the Coming Pandemic by Alan Sipress
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus by Richard Preston
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen

Lecture:

An Introduction to Infectious Diseases by Barry C. Fox

What about you? Have you caught the bug? Any book outbreaks you're interested in?