The COVID-19 pandemic won't be our last&md ash\;because what makes us vulnerable to pandemics also makes us human. Th at is the uncomfortable but all-too-timely message of "The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics\, From Our Bodies to Our Beliefs"\, which travels through history and around the globe to examine how and why pandemics are an inescapable threat of our own making. Drawing on dozens of disciplines& mdash\;from medicine\, epidemiology\, and microbiology to anthropology\, s ociology\, ecology\, and neuroscience&mdash\;as well as a unique expertise in public education about emerging infectious diseases\, biological anthr opologist Sabrina Sholts identifies the human traits and tendencies that d ouble as pandemic liabilities\, from the anatomy that defines us to the mi sperceptions that divide us.
\nWeaving together a wealth of personal experiences\, scientific findings\, and historical stories\, Sholts bring s dramatic and much-needed clarity to one of the most profound challenges we face as a species. Though the COVID-19 pandemic looms large in Sholts's account\, it is\, in fact\, just one of the many infectious disease event s explored in \;The Human Disease. With its expansive\, evolutionary p erspective\, the book explains how humanity will continue to face new pand emics because \;humans cause them\, by the ways that we are and the th ings that we do. By recognizing our risks\, Sholts suggests\, we can take actions to reduce them. When the next pandemic happens\, and how bad it be comes\, are largely within our highly capable human hands&mdash\;and will be determined by what we do with our extraordinary human brains.
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\nAbout the Author:
\nSabrina Sholts is a biological anthropologist and Curator of Biological Anthropology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural H istory (NMNH). Her research explores intersections of human\, animal\, and environmental health in the past and present. She received her PhD in Ant hropology at UC Santa Barbara and was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berk eley in Integrative Biology and at Stockholm University in Biophysics and Biochemistry. Sholts has published widely in academic journals including&n bsp\;American Journal of Biological Anthropology\, \;Environmental Hea lth Perspectives\, \;JAMA\, PNAS\, \;Scientific Reports\, \;Pr oceedings of the Royal Society B\, and \;Nature Ecology &\; Evoluti on\, and written for popular audiences in \;Scientific American \; and \;Smithsonian Magazine. She was named as a World Economic Forum Yo ung Scientist in 2019. In addition\, she was Lead Curator of the exhibitio n \;Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World \;at the NMNH \;( 2018-2022) and a scientific advisor for the related exhibition \;&Eacu te\;pidé\;mies: \;Prendre soin du vivant \;at the musé \;e des Confluences in Lyon\, France \;(2024-2025). \;
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