||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| In the Footsteps of Contagion, the Eternal Companion of Trade|By Serge J. Van Steenkiste|Mark Harrison clearly articulates the close relationship that trade and contagion have had since the 14th century CE. Mr. Harrison thoroughly analyzes the policies that first nations and then countries have designed and implemented to try to protect themselves against the nefarious effect||
'Mark Harrison brings unrivalled expertise as a medical historian to his masterly account of how contagion and commerce have marched ahead together over the centuries. He shows that the weapons we use against the spread of infection have grown ever more
Much as we take comfort in the belief that modern medicine and public health tactics can protect us from horrifying contagious diseases, such faith is dangerously unfounded. So demonstrates Mark Harrison in this pathbreaking investigation of the intimate connections between trade and disease throughout modern history. For centuries commerce has been the single most important factor in spreading diseases to different parts of the world, the author shows, and today the...
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