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Mark Harrison is professor of the history of medicine and director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford. He is the author of Contagion: How Commerce Spreads Disease, Medicine and Victory: British Military Medicine in the Second World War and The Medical War: British Military Medicine in the First World War; the latter two books were each awarded a Templer Medal.
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The Big Idea: Contagious Commerce
PANDEMIC<p>Oxford professor Mark Harrison, author of the new book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Contagion-How-Commerce-Spread-Disease/dp/0300123574" target="_blank"><i>Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease</i></a>, tells us what governments are doing wrong in public health, and why the spread of diseases among humans is not even the most dangerous thing about free trade.</p>
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