An engaging and timely collection examining the impact of plagues, from early history to current medicine and the future.
1. Ebola, the plague of 2014/15 Jonathan L. Heeney; 2. Plagues and history: from the Black Death to Alzheimer's disease Christopher Dobson and Mary Dobson; 3. Plagues and medicine Sir Leszek Borysiewicz; 4. The nature of plagues 2013-14: a year of living dangerously Angela McLean; 5. Plagues, populations, and survival Stephen J. O'Brien; 6. Plagues and socioeconomic collapse Ian Morris; 7. Silicon plagues Mikko Hypponen; 8. The human plague Stephen Emmott; 9. Plague as metaphor Rowan Williams.