Infected: How Power, Politics, and Privilege Use Science Against the World’s Most Vulnerable

＂... 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.＂--Provided by publsher.

Muhammad H. Zaman is an award-winning educator and researcher at Boston University, where he is Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and International Health. He is the author of Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens and lives in Boston.