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- Michael BloombergPublisher endorsementMIT Press prints Bloomberg’s signed praise for Bollyky’s book on disease and social change. This records the book-specific endorsement, not completed reading or independent proof of its policy conclusions.Source
Summary
Thomas Bollyky studies how declining infectious disease can reshape societies. His historical account and country cases ask why longer lives have not always been accompanied by comparable gains in jobs, income and public institutions.
The book’s central concern is the uneven social change that can follow a health achievement. It places health within a wider account of development rather than presenting a fall in disease as the end of a society’s difficulties.
Why read it Our view
Read it to separate an improvement in one measure from progress in every related system. Follow how demographic change interacts with work, cities and institutions in the cases. Its historical arguments are a basis for questions, not personal medical advice.