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Controlling Contagion OG25 'Spying at its most captivatingHow human institutionsmarkets, states, communities, religions, guilds and familieshave helped both to control and to exacerbate epidemics throughout history. How do societies tackle epidemic disease? In Controlling Contagion, Sheilagh Ogilvie answers this question by exploring seven centuries of pandemics, from the Black Death to Covid 19. For most of history, infectious diseases have killed many more people than famine or war, and in 2019 they still