Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Explore the deadliest influenza virus in history that killed as many as 100 million people worldwide after erupting in Kansas during WWI. Follow the collision of science and epidemic disease in 1918 and the triumph amid tragedy that ensued. With a newly revised section on avian flu, John M. Barry's The Great Influenza provides a precise and sobering model as we approach epidemics looming on our own horizon.

This memoir follows a neurosurgeon's journey through the diagnosis of stage IV lung cancer, leaving him to confront his own mortality. Proceeding with honesty and raw emotion, he poignantly explores life's meaning when faced with death and the challenges of being a new father while nurturing a new life as another fades away. A must-read for those seeking insight into life's profound questions.