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History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah After the Spike asks whatAn incredible, humane, insightful (Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize winner) account of humankind's battles with epidemic disease, and their outsized role in deepening inequality along racial, ethnic, class, and gender lines in the vein of Medical Apartheid and Killing the Black Body. With clear eyed research and lush prose, A History of the World in Six Plagues is a breathtaking journey through the intertwined histories of contagions and systemic inequities