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Our Malady - Lessons in Liberty and Solidarity (Paperback): Timothy Snyder

Our Malady - Lessons in Liberty and Solidarity (Paperback)

Timothy Snyder

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A virus is not human, but the reaction to it is a measure of humanity.

America has not measured up well. Tens of thousands are dead for no reason. America is supposed to be about freedom, yet illness and fear make its citizens less free. After all, freedom is meaningless if we are too ill to think about our right to happiness or too weak to pursue it. So, if a government is making its people unhealthy it is also making them unfree.

On December 29, 2019, Timothy Snyder fell gravely ill. As he clung to life he found himself reflecting on the fragility of health, not recognized in America as a human right, but without which all rights and freedoms have no meaning. And that was before the pandemic. We have since watched understaffed and undersupplied hospitals buckling under waves of coronavirus patients. The federal government made matters worse through wilful ignorance, misinformation, and profiteering.

This passionate intervention outlines the lessons we must all learn, wherever we are, and finds glimmers of hope in dark times. Only by enshrining healthcare as a human right, elevating the authority of doctors and truth, and planning for our children's future, can everyone be properly free.

Freedom belongs to individuals. But to be free we need our health, and for our health we need one another.

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Imprint: The Bodley Head Ltd
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: September 2020
Authors: Timothy Snyder
Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 978-1-84792-666-1
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Microbiology (non-medical) > Virology
Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Popular medicine > General
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Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > General
Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > General
Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Diseases & disorders > Infectious & contagious diseases > General
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LSN: 1-84792-666-5
Barcode: 9781847926661

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