Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid by Sheilagh Ogilvie

Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid

Sheilagh Ogilvie

544 pages first pub 2025 (editions)

nonfiction health history science medium-paced
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Ogilvie uses historical epidemics to analyse how human societies deal with “externalities”—situations where my action creates costs or benefits for others beyond those that I myself incur. Social institutions—markets, states, communities, religion...

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