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Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
by Nate Pedersen, Lydia Kang
challenging
informative
fast-paced
This was an enjoyable read for the most part, though it was probably not the best life choice, in terms of the constantly thrumming anxiety in the back of my mind, to continue reading this after being exposed to covid. I couldn't always make sense of the way chapters transitioned into each other and the book did end somewhat abruptly. But I did learn things!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Suicide, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Colonisation, Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Animal death, Cancer, Confinement, Blood, Classism