Mark Harrison

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

<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>

Mark Harrison