Pandemics and Politics

A Scientist's Memoir

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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For more than fifty years, Max Essex has stood at the front lines of the world’s epidemics. As a pioneering AIDS researcher and distinguished microbiologist, Essex was among the first to link retroviruses to AIDS, to prove that HIV could be spread through bodily fluids, and to identify the protein that became the global standard for HIV screening. His work helped shape how the world understands and prevents viral disease, especially across the African continent.In Pandemics and Politics, Essex blends personal memoir with scientific history. He revisits six viruses that defined his career and transformed global health: Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE), feline leukemia (FeLV), human T-cell leukemia (HTLV), hepatitis B (HBV), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Three cause cancer, three drive immunosuppression, and two – HIV and COVID – reshaped societies profoundly as they claimed lives.Essex reflects upon the monumental achievements of human medicine alongside the rising challenges of scientific denialism and misinformation, global inequity and prejudice, harmful health policies and more through the lens of the viruses that impact us most. Pandemics and Politics: A Scientist’s Memoir offers a compelling perspective on discovery and controversy, and a look at what these six viruses reveal about the epidemics of the future.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-11-17
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:1 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781049804736

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Virologist Max Essex is one of the leading figures in the scientific response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Essex has been a professor at Harvard for more than fifty years; he has chaired the Harvard AIDS Institute, the Botswana Harvard Partnership, and the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He has authored more than seven hundred research papers as well as twelve books, including AIDS in Africa and Saturday Is for Funerals, and has fifteen patents and ten honorary doctoral degrees. Essex was a co-recipient of the Lasker Award, the highest award given for medical research in the US.

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IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Mexico and the Venezuelan Encephalitis Virus2. Michigan and California3. Stockholm4. Harvard and the Multiple-Cat Households5. Immunosuppression and Academic Tenure6. Human Leukemia Virus7. Cold Spring Harbor and the New Cancer Viruses8. AIDS: The Beginning9. Finding the Cause10. Proof of Cause11. AIDS in Africa12. Senegal and HIV-213. Duesberg and the Denialists14. Why No Vaccine?15. The Origin of Viral Epidemics 101 – COVID16. The Origin of Viral Epidemics 102 – HIVs17. Advances in Therapy18. Thailand19. Pediatric AIDS and Princess Diana20. The Harvard AIDS Institute21. Educating Scientists22. The Boston Conference23. Protests in Italy24. Development and Deeda Blair25. On to Botswana26. Saving Children27. Treatment as Prevention and 90-90-9028. Pandemic Politics29. An Impending Public Health Disaster30. Trump Attacks HarvardGlossaryReferences