The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
Steven W Thrasher
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The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
Steven W Thrasher
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
The pandemic brought America’s health inequities into stark relief, but The Viral Underclass illustrates that the problem isn’t new, and that it is embedded more deeply than many of us realize.
... important.
... riveting.
... exemplary.
Thrasher writes of his book as a journey, an invitation to travel alongside him as he puts the focus back on the members of the viral underclass. It is also an exploration of what viruses have taught him about the dangers and the necessity of vulnerability, of how they have 'drawn [him] around the world,' how they showed him that he 'could love (and mourn) more deeply' than he 'ever knew was possible.' Here is the possibility contained within the framing of the viral underclass: that viruses bind people together, even as they do not take from all of us in equal measure.
... powerful.