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American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19 by John Fabian Witt, 2020, provides a concise history of how the law has shaped responses to contagious disease in the US. |
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Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live by Nicholas Christakis, 2020; interview with the author. |
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The COVID-19 Forum edited by Christos Lynteris—Emily Wanderer recommends this online collection in which anthropologists and historians examine this pandemic in relation to other epidemics and epidemic-control processes. |
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital—Journalist Sheri Fink recounts the tragic choices made at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina when a lack of planning and leadership led to implementation of a triage system that deprioritized critically ill patients for evacuation. |
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On Immunity: An Inoculation, a 2014 book of essays by Eula Biss, that recounts her fears for her infant son and her exploration of concerns about vaccination. |
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The Premonition: A Pandemic Story, by Michael Lewis, tells of the multiple Cassandras of COVID-19 who had foresight regarding the virus’s spread and toll, but who were largely disregarded. |
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The Strange Link Between Pandemics and Psychosis, by Shayla Love, Vice |
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Ten Lessons for a Post-pandemic World, by Fareed Zakaria, 2020, addresses inequality’s worsening, markets’ limitations, challenges to expertise and for experts, globalization, and when realists are new idealists. |
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The Viral Storm by Nathan Wolfe, 2011; NPR interview with the author and review in The Guardian |