{"id":37328,"date":"2023-10-04T21:10:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T21:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=37328"},"modified":"2023-10-04T21:10:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T21:10:04","slug":"simon-schama-foreign-bodies-pandemics-vaccines-and-the-health-of-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=37328","title":{"rendered":"Simon Schama, \u201eForeign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>\u2018This splendid and often moving work of history\u2026 Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly amusing asides\u2019 <em>Daily Telegraph<\/em><br><br>\u2018Superb\u2019 <em>Observer<\/em><br><br>\u2018Extraordinary\u2026 A meticulous retelling of a terrible yet scientifically innovative period\u2026 Makes an urgent case for building a better future on our toxic past\u2019 <em>Guardian<\/em><br><br>\u2018This is history of the best sort \u2013 humanly engaged but never sentimental\u2019<em> Mail on Sunday<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity of science, it has happened before.<\/strong><br><br>Characteristically, with Schama the message is delivered through<strong> gripping, page-turning stories<\/strong> set in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: smallpox strikes London; cholera hits Paris; plague comes to India. Threading through the scenes of terror, suffering and hope \u2013 in hospitals and prisons, palaces and slums \u2013 are<strong> an unforgettable cast of characters<\/strong>: a philosopher-playwright burning up with smallpox in a country chateau; a vaccinating doctor paying house calls in Halifax; a woman doctor in south India driving her inoculator-carriage through the stricken streets as dead monkeys drop from the trees. But we are also in the labs when<strong> great, life-saving breakthroughs<\/strong> happen, in Paris, Hong Kong and Mumbai.<br><br>At the heart of it all, an unsung hero: Waldemar Haffkine. <strong>A gun-toting Jewish student in Odesa turned microbiologist at the Pasteur Institute<\/strong>, hailed in England as \u2018the saviour of mankind\u2019 for vaccinating millions against cholera and bubonic plague in British India while being cold-shouldered by the medical establishment of the Raj. <strong>Creator of the world\u2019s first mass production line of vaccines<\/strong> in Mumbai, he is <strong>tragically brought down in an act of shocking injustice.<\/strong><br><br><em>Foreign Bodies <\/em>crosses borders between east and west, Asia and Europe, the worlds of rich and poor, politics and science. Its thrilling story carries with it the credo of its author on<strong> the interconnectedness of humanity and nature<\/strong>; of the powerful and the people. Ultimately, Schama says, as we face the challenges of our times together, <strong>\u2018there are no foreigners, only familiars\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Publisher: Simon &amp; Schuster UK (May 25, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Length: 480 pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.co.uk\/books\/Foreign-Bodies\/Simon-Schama\/9781471169892\">https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.co.uk\/books\/Foreign-Bodies\/Simon-Schama\/9781471169892<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/foreign-bodies.jpg?fit=259%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37330,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37328\/revisions\/37330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}