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Chagas' disease Communicable diseases Political aspects Communicable diseases Political aspects United States Communicable diseases Social aspects Communicable diseases Social aspects United States Epidemics Epidemics United States History 20th century Families Health and hygiene Families Health and hygiene Biography United StatesHernández, Daisy
Summary: "Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had become deathly ill from eating an apple. No one in her family, in either the United States or Colombia, spoke of infectious diseases, and even into her thirties, she only knew that her aunt had died of a rare illness called Chagas. But as Hernández dug deeper, she discovered that Chagas--or the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9 HERHernández, Daisy
Summary: "Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had become deathly ill from eating an apple. No one in her family, in either the United States or Colombia, spoke of infectious diseases, and even into her thirties, she only knew that her aunt had died of a rare illness called Chagas. But as Hernández dug deeper, she discovered that Chagas--or the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT 616.9 HERFernández-Armesto, Felipe
Summary: For readers of big history and philosophy, a fast-paced new book on the origins and history of human ideas--from cannibalism to religion, feminism to stoicism--by a renowned historian. A vividly rendered work that relates the history of human ideas and examines the broad array of ideas that have defined Bronze Age thinking all the way up to the present day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oneworld 2019