John M. Barry is an American author and historian, perhaps best known for his books on the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 the influenza pandemic of 1918 and his book on the development of the modern form of the ideas of separation of church and state and individual liberty. His most recent book is Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty (Viking 2012).
Barry's 1997 book Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list and won the 1998 Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians for the year's best book on American history. His work on water-related issues was recognized by the National Academies of Sciences in its invitation to give the 2006 Abel Wolman Distinguished Lecture on Water Resources; he is the only non-scientist ever to give that lecture.
His 2004 book The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Greatest Plague in History was also a New York Times Best Seller, and won the 2005 Keck Communications Award from the United States National Academies of Science for the year's outstanding book on science or medicine. In 2005 he also won the "September 11th Award" from the Center for Biodefense and Emerging Pathogens at Brown University. He has served on a federal government's Infectious Disease Board of Experts, on the advisory board of MIT's Center for Engineering Fundamentals, and on the advisory committee at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for its Center for Refugee and Disaster Response.
The expertise he developed in these two areas has involved him in policy-making, risk communication and disaster management strategies, and developing resilient communities, and this work resulted in his induction into Delta Omega, the academic honorary society for public health. More specifically, he has advised the private sector and local, state, national, and international government officials about preparing for another influenza pandemic. He has also both advised officials and taken a direct role in preparing for water-related disasters. A resident of New Orleans, after Hurricane Katrina he was also named to both the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority, which is the levee board overseeing several separate levee districts in the New Orleans area, and the state's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, which is responsible for hurricane protection for the entire state.
His first book, The Ambition and the Power: A true story of Washington, appeared in 1989 and explored the operation of the U.S. Congress, the use of power by Speaker of the House Jim Wright, and the rise of future Speaker Newt Gingrich. In 1995 the New York Times named it one of the eleven best books ever written on Congress and Washington.
With Steven Rosenberg, MD, Ph.D., chief of the Surgery Branch at the National Cancer Institute and a pioneer in the development of "immunotherapy" for cancer—stimulating the immune system to attack cancer—Barry co-authored his second book, The Transformed Cell: Unlocking the Mysteries of Cancer, which was published in 12 languages.
Barry has written for The New York Times, Time Magazine, Fortune, The Washington Post, Esquire, and other publications and frequently appears as a guest commentator on broadcast media.
He has also coached high school and college football, and his first published article was about blocking assignments for offensive linemen and appeared in a professional journal for coaches, Scholastic Coach.
No disease the world has ever known even remotely resembles the great influenza epidemic of 1918. Presumed to have begun when sick farm animals infected soldiers in Kansas, spreading and mutating into a lethal strain as troops carried it to Europe, it exploded across the world with unequaled ferocity and speed. It killed more people in twenty weeks than AIDS has killed in twenty years; it killed more people in a year than the plagues of the Middle Ages killed in a century. Victims bled from the ears and nose, turned blue from lack of oxygen, suffered aches that felt like bones being broken, and died. In the United States, where bodies were stacked without coffins on trucks, nearly seven times as many people died of influenza as in the First World War.
In his powerful new book, award-winning historian John M. Barry unfolds a tale that is magisterial in its breadth and in the depth of its research, and spellbinding as he weaves multiple narrative strands together. In this first great collision between science and epidemic disease, even as society approached collapse, a handful of heroic researchers stepped forward, risking their lives to confront this strange disease. Titans like William Welch at the newly formed Johns Hopkins Medical School and colleagues at Rockefeller University and others from around the country revolutionized American science and public health, and their work in this crisis led to crucial discoveries that we are still using and learning from today.
The Washington Post’s Jonathan Yardley said Barry’s last book can "change the way we think." The Great Influenza may also change the way we see the world.
说的是1918年西班牙大流感在美国事,多年前看过一遍,最近想再看一遍。印象深刻几个点,西方传统医学也很古老追溯到古希腊,四体液均衡,流感起源于瘴气,人体是神圣,不能用体温计,听筒测量。 面对疫情老美政府也一样瞒报,起码1918年是如此。科学家经过很多努力,一样束手无...
评分 评分断断续续读了一部分,感觉书的内容贯穿了现代传染病学的历史,从巴斯德发现感染的原理开始,若干继承者不断深入探索,直至发现DNA/RNA遗传机制为止。 虽然以1918大流感为题,感觉事实上并不是那次流感的纪实。
评分 评分新京报·文化客厅在疫期特别策划了一系列线上活动,将邀请编辑、学者等嘉宾组建微信社群,在线上用语音的形式继续给各位读者分享智识盛筵。或许,他们未必都能为疫情提供良策;但也许可以让我们安顿下来重新考量,我们周围那些习以为常的人或事务。 传染病的身影在历史上,并不...
被迫在家工作的闲暇为打发时间看了这本封面看起来是张文宏医生一个公开课里用过图片的书,讲述历史本总给人看故事的感觉直到自己活在这个故事里
评分多年前度过中文版,最近偶遇2018英文版,再读一遍,虽然觉得絮叨松散,总有大段酝酿情绪营造气氛或者过多刻画人物,篇幅缩短一半大概也正好。基本上是以大流感为背景,对美国医学研究崛起的全景描绘了。后记在此刻读来最是应景。作者大概也没想到,两年前所写的后记,字字句句印证了两年后的世界吧。希望多年后,也有类似描写记录covid-19的作品。
评分必须5星。本书最有愿意的是最后一章的最后一句话。
评分人真挺悲哀的
评分实在是太啰嗦了,可能是流行作者个人风格的原因把所有事情都描述的特别dramatic。最喜欢最后讲科学家个人经历的几章,前面关于疾病的全球传播写的不够清楚。
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