Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them by Jennifer WrightMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This was a surprisingly delightful book about pestilence and death. The premise is that humankind has survived--more or less--multiple attempts by nature to kill us all, and there is always another opportunity for nature to try again. We should learn from past plagues how to deal with the social issues as well as the medical issues.
I did really love the chapter on the "dancing plague" though to be fair it was a pretty small-scale situation. It really highlights the importance of goodness and morality in curtailing diseases of all kinds. It's kind of a stark contrast from the way the U.S. government handled the AIDS crisis in the 80s.
Also, I learned quite a lot about polio that I didn't know.
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