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Helen Epstein, author of Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa <br> In this richly detailed and fascinating book, Alcabes explores the meaning of epidemics throughout history, and what our fears of them tell us about ourselves. Like Susan Sontag, he reminds us just how hard it is to see these diseases for what they are. <br> <p><br> Barry Glassner, author of The Gospel of Food and The Culture of Fear <br> Exceptionally insightful and persuasively argued, Dread is at once a chronicle of the uses and (more often) abuses of the term epidemic and an antidote to the modern tendency to transmute fears of strangers and societal and personal failings into diseases. <br> <p><br> Harriet Washington, author of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present <br> Dread is an insightful education in how art and science inform each other in a cultural synergy that, even today, keeps us from discerning what is medicine and what is myth. The word genius has been debased by frequent use, but this is a work of undeniable genius in the most exalted sense. What Stephen Jay Gould did for natural history, Philip Alcabes has done for public health.

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Philip Alcabes is currently Associate Professor of Urban Public Health at Hunter College of the City University of New York and Visiting Clinical Associate Professor at the Yale School of Nursing. Alcabes has published opinion pieces for the Washington Post and essays on science and public health that have appeared in The American Scholar, Chronicle of Higher Education, and Virginia Quarterly Review. He lives in Riverdale, New York.

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