Truxal Library Special Topic Guide: Pandemic Years
Libguide about the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and other pandemics
Books Spotlight
Adventures of a Female Medical Detective –by Call Number: R692 .G85 2016ISBN: 9781421419992Publication Date: 2016-05-01
AIDS in the Shadow of Biomedicine Inside South Africa's Epidemic. –by Call Number: RA643.86 .S62 B67 2018ISBN: 9781786994738Publication Date: 2018-12-15
American Crisis First edition –by Call Number: RA644 .C67 C866 2020ISBN: 9780593239261Publication Date: 2020-10-13
American Plagues: Lessons from our Battles with disease Updated edition. –by Call Number: RA650.5 .G445 2016ISBN: 9781442256507Publication Date: 2016-04-14
The Black Death –by Call Number: RC178 .A1 B583 2005ISBN: 9780618463428Publication Date: 2004-06-11.
Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe 1st Free Press pbk. ed. –by Call Number: RC178 .G3 G67 1985ISBN: 0029123704Publication Date: 1985-03-01
The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in early Renaissance Europe. –by Call Number: RC178.A1 C63 2002ISBN: 0340706465Publication Date: 2002-07-11
The Burdens of Disease: Epidemics and Human Response in Western History Rev. ed. –by Call Number: RA649 .H29 2009ISBN: 9780813546124Publication Date: 2009-10-15
Covid-19: The Pandemic that Never Should Have Happened and How to Stop the Next one First edition. –by Call Number: RA644 .C67 M33 2020ISBN: 9780306924248Publication Date: 2020-07-14
Critical Insights: Literature in Times of Crisis –by Call Number: PN56 .D555 L58 2021ISBN: 9781642657548Publication Date: 2021-03-30
The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic First Scribner hardcover edition. –by Call Number: PN6120.2 .D43 2020ISBN: 9781982170790Publication Date: 2020-11-10
Defining Documents in World History: Plagues, Pandemics, and Public Health. –by Call Number: RA649 .P36 2020 V.1ISBN: 9781642657333Publication Date: 2020-12-30
Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus –by Call Number: RC140.5 .Q36 2014ISBN: 9780393351552Publication Date: 2014-10-20
Emerging Infectious Diseases: Trends and Issues 2nd ed. –by Call Number: RA643 .E465 2007ISBN: 9780826102508Publication Date: 2007-08-01
The End of a Global Pox America and the Eradication of Smallpox in the Cold War Era –by Call Number: RC183.4 .R45 2015ISBN: 9781469624099Publication Date: 2015-09-14
The Epidemic: (A Global History of AIDS) –by Call Number: RA643.8 .E54 2006ISBN: 0061144886Publication Date: 2006-09-19
Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present Paperback edition. –by Call Number: RA649 .S669 2020ISBN: 9780300256390Publication Date: 2020-05-01
The Fatal Strain: On the Trail of Avian Flu and the Coming Pandemic. –by Call Number: RA644 .I6 S57 2009ISBN: 9780670021277Publication Date: 2009-11-12
Fighting the First Wave: Why the Coronavirus was Tackled so Differently Across the Globe. –by Call Number: RA644 .C67 B35 2021ISBN: 9781316518335Publication Date: 2021-03-18
The First Shots: the epic rivalries and heroic science behind the race to the coronavirus vaccine . –by Call Number: RA644 .C67 B67 2021ISBN: 9780358569848Publication Date: 2021-10-26
Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused it 1st ed. –by Call Number: RC150.4 .K64 2000ISBN: 0374157065Publication Date: 1999-11-19
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the most Devastating Plague of all Time 1st ed. –by Call Number: RC172 .K445 2005ISBN: 0060006927Publication Date: 2005-02-01
The Health of Nations: The Campaign to End Polio and Eradicate Epidemic Diseases. –by Call Number: RA643 .B374 2017ISBN: 9781786072665Publication Date: 2018-03-01
The Infodemic: How Censorship and Lies Made the World Sicker and Less Free. –by Call Number: JA85 .S536 2022ISBN: 9781735913681Publication Date: 2022-04-26
The Invisible People: How the U.S. has Slept through the Global AIDS Pandemic, the Greatest Humanitarian Catastrophe of our Time. –by Call Number: RA643.83 .B44 2004ISBN: 0743257553Publication Date: 2004-05-25
Just in Case: How to be Self-Sufficient when the Unexpected Happens. –by Call Number: HV551.2 .H38 2008ISBN: 9781603420358Publication Date: 2008-07-23
King Death: The Black Death and its Aftermath in late-medieval England –by Call Number: RC179.G7 P56 1996ISBN: 0802079008Publication Date: 1996-03-25
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch. –by Call Number: T47 .D37 2014ISBN: 9781594205231Publication Date: 2014-04-17
Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal First edition. –by Call Number: E893 .P33 2021ISBN: 9780374603663Publication Date: 2021-06-15
Leading Through a Pandemic: The Inside Story of Humanity, Innovation, and Lessons Learned during the Covid-19 Crisis. –by Call Number: RA644 .C67 D695 2020ISBN: 9781510763845Publication Date: 2020-08-25
Life's Edge: The Search for What it Means to be Alive. –by Call Number: QH311 .Z56 2021ISBN: 9780593182710Publication Date: 2021-03-09
Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health First edition. –by Call Number: RA410.5 .W455 2021ISBN: 1250186234Publication Date: 2021-07-27
Managing Global Health Security: The World Health Organization and Disease Outbreak Control. –by Call Number: RA441 .K36 2015ISBN: 9780230369313Publication Date: 2015-05-05
New Yorkers: A City and its People in Our Time First edition. –by Call Number: F128.36 .T39 2021ISBN: 9780393242324Publication Date: 2021-03-23
Nurses and Disasters: Global, Historical Case Studies –by Call Number: RT108 .N87 2015ISBN: 9780826126726Publication Date: 2015-05-01
Pandemic, Inc : chasing the capitalists and thieves who got rich while we got sick First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition. –by Call Number: RA644 .C67 M3975 2022ISBN: 9781982177768Publication Date: 2022-04-12
Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History First U.S. edition. –by Call Number: RC150.4 .A75 2018ISBN: 9781250139436Publication Date: 2018-08-28
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and beyond First edition. –by Call Number: RA643 .S52 2016ISBN: 9780374122881Publication Date: 2016-02-16
The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris First edition. –by Call Number: RA650.5 .H665 2019ISBN: 9780393254754Publication Date: 2019-04-09
Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response: A WHO Guidance Document –by Call Number: RA644 .I66 P35 2009ISBN: 9789241547680Publication Date: 2009-05-29
Pandemics, Science and Policy: H1N1 and the World Health Organization. –by Call Number: RA644 .I6 A26 2015ISBN: 9781137467195Publication Date: 2015-04-07
The Plague Cycle: : the unending war between Humanity and Infectious Disease First Scribner hardcover edition. –by Call Number: RA649 .K46 2021ISBN: 9781982165338Publication Date: 2021-01-19
The Plague Year: America in the Time of COVID First edition. –by Call Number: RA644 .C67 W75 2021ISBN: 9780593320723Publication Date: 2021-06-08
The Pox and the Covenant: Mather, Franklin, and the Epidemic that Changed America's destiny –by Call Number: RC183.5 .M4 W55 2010ISBN: 9781402236051Publication Date: 2010-04-01
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story First edition. –by Call Number: RA644 .C67 L49 2021ISBN: 9780393881554Publication Date: 2021-05-04
Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response First edition –by Call Number: RA644 .C67 S56 2021ISBN: 9781250770165Publication Date: 2021-06-15
Public Health and Human Rights: Evidence-Based Approaches. –by Call Number: RA418 .P835 2007ISBN: 9780801886461Publication Date: 2007-09-28
Reference Shelf: Vaccinations –by Call Number: RA638 .V2983 2021ISBN: 9781642657937Publication Date: 2022-01-30- Remote Teaching and Learning: Reflections and Practical Advice –by Call Number: LB1044.87 .R45 2021ISBN: 0912150785Publication Date: 2021-04-25
Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans will Survive a Mass Extinction First edition. –by Call Number: GF86 .N485 2013ISBN: 9780385535915Publication Date: 2013-05-14
Ship of Death: A Voyage that Changed the Atlantic World. –by Call Number: RA644 .Y4 S58 2013ISBN: 9780300194524Publication Date: 2013-11-19
A Shot to Save the World: : the inside story of the life-or-death race for a Covid-19 vaccine. –by Call Number: RA644 .C67 Z835 2021ISBN: 9780593420393Publication Date: 2021-10-26
Shutdown: How COVID Shook the World's Economy. –by Call Number: HB3722 .T655 2021ISBN: 9780593297551Publication Date: 2021-09-07
Silent Invasion : the untold story of the Trump administration, Covid-19, and preventing the next pandemic before it's too late First edition. –by Call Number: RA644 .C67 B555 2022ISBN: 9780063204232Publication Date: 2022-04-26
Survival of the City Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation –by Call Number: HT123 .G563 2021ISBN: 9780593297681Publication Date: 2021-09-07
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World. –by Call Number: D862 .Z35 2020ISBN: 9780393542134Publication Date: 2020-10-06
There's a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis. –by Call Number: HN59.2 .T484 2021ISBN: 9780593314692Publication Date: 2021-05-11
The Thin White Line: A History of the 2012 Avian Flu Pandemic in Canada. –by Call Number: PS3604 .I463 2008ISBN: 9780978452414Publication Date: 2008-03-01
Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World can Finally Overcome it. –by Call Number: RA643.86 .A35 T56 2012ISBN: 159420327XPublication Date: 2012-03-01
Together in a Sudden Strangeness America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic First edition. –by Call Number: PS595 .E65 T64 2020ISBN: 9780593318720Publication Date: 2020-11-17
Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic First edition. –by Call Number: RA644 .C67 G68 2021ISBN: 9780063080010Publication Date: 2021-09-21
Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine First edition. –by Call Number: RA655 .M36 2021ISBN: 9780374126582Publication Date: 2021-07-20
Vaccination and Its Critics: A Documentary and Reference Guide –by Call Number: RA638 .R68 2017ISBN: 9781440841835Publication Date: 2017-02-06
Vaccination Ethics and Policy: An Introduction with Readings. –by Call Number: RA638 .V2982 2017ISBN: 9780262035330Publication Date: 2017-01-27
Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver 1st ed. –by Call Number: RA638 .A45 2007ISBN: 0393059111Publication Date: 2007-01-01
The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age 1st ed. –by Call Number: QR360 .W65 2011ISBN: 0805091947Publication Date: 2011-10-11
The Virus in the Age of Madness. –by Call Number: B2430 .L533 C4213 2020ISBN: 9780300257373Publication Date: 2020-07-28
Voices from the Pandemic: Americans Tell their Stories of Crisis, Courage and Resilience First edition. –by Call Number: RA644 .C67 S277 2021ISBN: 9780385547000Publication Date: 2021-09-28
World War C: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. –by Call Number: RA644 .C67 G865 2021ISBN: 9781982166106Publication Date: 2021-10-05
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