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What is Foreign Bodies about?
A vibrant cultural history investigating pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon SchamaCities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity of science, it has happened before.Characteristically, Schama's message is delivered through gripping, page-turning stories set in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: smallpox strikes London; cholera hits Paris; plague comes to India. Threading through the scenes of terror, suffering and hope – in hospitals and prisons, palaces, and slums – are an unforgettable cast of characters: a philosopher-playwright burning up with smallpox in a country chateau; a vaccinating doctor paying house calls in Halifax; a woman doctor in...
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Simon Schama
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 3.14 / 5 (33 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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