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‘An eloquent and alarming history of how diseases have hitched their way around the world’
The Times
‘A book to buy? Yes, it is interesting and worth reading. I admire Desowitz both for his guts and scholarship’
Sunday Express
‘If I ruled the world, Desowitz’s book would be required reading’
Los Angeles Times
“An eloquent and alarming history of how diseases have hitched their way around the world”
ANJANA AHUJA, 'The Times'
“'Tropical Diseases' is a meaty book which ranges widely over the fertile landscape of epidemiology. Its scope is the birth, evolution and transmission of diseases associated with hot countries ... So what exactly is a tropical disease? Does it occur only in the tropics? It seems not. Most so-called tropical diseases crop up in places as untropical as Swansea, scene of a virulent malaria outbreak in 1865. “Our world” warns Desowitz “has never been compartmentalised.” 'Tropical Diseases' takes a sprightly course through medical history from 50,000 BC to AD 2500. A heavyweight academic, Desowitz is also a gifted interpreter, always seeking the analogy that brings a scientific concept into the layman’s living room. There is a touch of theatre about his prose and it suits the subject matter. Desowitz is a natural storyteller regaling us with the tale of Columbus’s sailor who noticed hard small lesions on his penis after disporting himself in what was probably the Bahamas in 1492 and went home to spread syphilis throughout Europe. The whole confection is laced with such irresistibly lurid stories.”
SARA WHEELER, 'Sunday Telegraph'
“Among the healing arts, tropical medicine has traditionally claimed a particularly heroic status and the stirring saga of the conquest of tropical diseases is told here with panache. 'Tropical Diseases' is an agreeable read.”
ROY PORTER, 'Literary Review'
“A timely warning that malaria, syphilis and cholera have not gone away. Social upheaval, changing climate, a blind political eye is all they need to return. A book to buy? – yes ... it is interesting and worth reading. I admire Desowitz both for his guts and scholarship.”
MYLES HARRIS,'Sunday Express'
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