{"product_id":"infected-how-power-politics-and-privilege-use-science-against-the-worlds-most-vulnerable-hardcover","title":"Infected: How Power, Politics, and Privilege Use Science Against the World's Most Vulnerable - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMuhammad H. Zaman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA paradigm-shifting exploration of the politics of health around the world, by an award-winning scientist\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Zaman's optimism . . . is welcome. . . . His sense of urgency is irresistible.\" \u003cbr\u003e--\u003cem\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e on Muhammad H. Zaman's \u003cem\u003eThe Biography of Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince the dawn of germ theory, from cholera to sleeping sickness, syphilis to COVID-19, the history of infectious diseases and related policies has shown us how vulnerable communities have been impacted in the name of research or disease control.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eInfected\u003c\/em\u003e, award-winning scientist and author Muhammad H. Zaman navigates the exceptionalism of infection and tells the epic story of compromised doctors and administrators, and the heroes who challenged them. It is a tale describing how exclusionary immigration acts, the Tuskegee syphilis study and the Guatemala experiments, the development of biological weapons, the fake vaccination campaign in Pakistan, and the rhetoric around the recent pandemic are all parts of the same deeper story--one of infectious diseases intertwined with power and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a story that continues today, in poor nations that have long been impacted by the foreign policies of the rich, and at borders, where asylum seekers are denied necessary medical treatment regardless of who is in power. Melding science and history, \u003cem\u003eInfected\u003c\/em\u003e presents infection as a key to understanding our recent past, present, and future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMuhammad H. Zaman \u003c\/b\u003eis Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and International Health at Boston University, where he studies infectious disease dynamics and barriers to healthcare access among at-risk and vulnerable communities. He is also the inaugural director of the Center on Forced Displacement at Boston University. He has worked with communities in refugee camps, shelters, and urban informal settlements in over a dozen countries. He is the author of several books, including \u003cem\u003eWe Wait for a Miracle: Healthcare and the Forcibly Displaced\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBiography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eInfected: How Power, Politics, and Privilege Use Science Against the World's Most Vulnerable\u003c\/em\u003e (The New Press). He lives in Boston. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.7 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 18, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45176756731983,"sku":"9781620977521","price":27.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/8328\/0463\/files\/ndjnnEI-Po9781620977521.webp?v=1778198288","url":"https:\/\/easonbooks.com\/products\/infected-how-power-politics-and-privilege-use-science-against-the-worlds-most-vulnerable-hardcover","provider":"EasonBooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}