![]() ![]() But we are also in the labs when great, life-saving breakthroughs happen, in Paris, Hong Kong and Mumbai.Īt the heart of it all, an unsung Waldemar Haffkine. Threading through the scenes of terror, suffering and hope – in hospitals and prisons, palaces and slums – are an unforgettable cast of a philosopher-playwright burning up with smallpox in a country chateau a vaccinating doctor paying house calls in Halifax a woman doctor in south India driving her inoculator-carriage through the stricken streets as dead monkeys drop from the trees. 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.Ĭharacteristically, with Schama the message is delivered through gripping, page-turning stories set in the eighteenth and nineteenth smallpox strikes London cholera hits Paris plague comes to India. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. ![]() Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. ![]()
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