THE FEVER: HOW MALARIA HAS RULED HUMANKIND FOR 500,000 YEARS

Book ID/图书代码： 11650013B64670

English Summary/英文概要： In recent years, malaria has emerged as a cause célèbre for voguish philanthropists. Bill Gates, Bono, and Laura Bush are only a few of the personalities who have opened their pocketbooks in hopes of eradicating the scourge. How does a parasitic disease that we’ve known how to prevent for more than a century still infect three hundred million people every year, killing nearly one million of them? In The Fever, the journalist Sonia Shah sets out to answer this question, delivering a timely, inquisitive chronicle of the illness and its influence on human lives. The Fever captures the curiously fascinating, devastating history of this long-standing thorn in the side of humanity.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 近年来,疟疾的流行已成为著名慈善家眼中轰动一时的事件。比尔•盖茨,博纳和劳拉•布什甚至自掏腰包，把一大笔钱投入到消除疟疾的公益事业中，希望杜绝这种可怕的瘟疫。然而，仅仅只有一小部分的名人会这样做。我们在一个多世纪以前就已经知道如何预防这种寄生虫病的发生，可是为什么每年仍然有三亿人感染疟疾,将近一百万人因此而失去生命呢?在这本书中,作者SONIA SHAH着手解答了这个问题, 为广大读者呈现了及时、探究性的疾病动态分析以及它对人类生活的影响。《大行其道的疟疾》一书以颇具洞察力的眼光，为我们介绍了这个长期以来严重危害人类健康的疾病在历史上给人类带来的毁灭性打击。(Susie)

Awards/获奖情况：作者在TED上的演講: http://www.ted.com/talks/sonia_shah_3_reasons_we_still_haven_t_gotten_rid_of_malaria.html

“这是一本引人入胜的书”——《华尔街日报》

“Brilliant.” —The Wall Street Journal

“这本书生动地呈现了人类与疟疾抗争的历史，在今天与我们的生活息息相关。”——Elizabeth Kolbert，《灾难：人类，自然和气候变化》一书的作者

“The Fever is a vivid and compelling history with a message that’s entirely relevant today.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change

“Sonia Shah’s tour-de-force history of malaria will convince you that the real sound track to our collective fate [is] the syncopated whine-slap, whine-slap of man and mosquito duking it out over the aeons.” —The New York Times

“An often rollicking read . . . Shah has put together an engrossing cast of doctors, malariologists, and historical figures.” —Time

“An insightful book explores the human struggle with malaria not just from a scientific angle, which is cogently detailed without being overwhelming, but also from sociological and anthropological perspectives. . . . Shah is to be commended.” —The Boston Globe

About the Author/作者介绍： SONIA SHAH是一位著名的新闻记者，她凭借《身体的敌人》和《原油：石油的故事》这两本书而声名大噪。她的文章经常在《华盛顿邮报》、《波士顿环球报》，《新科学家》杂志，《民族报》等刊物上发表。

Sonia Shah is an investigative journalist and the critically acclaimed author of The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World’s Poorest Patients and Crude: The Story of Oil. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, New Scientist, The Nation, and elsewhere.

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