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cord-029419-b0w9nomq	Matthews, Adam	Review of Mark Honigsbaum (2020). The Pandemic Century—A History of Global Contagion from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19: Cambridge, MA: Penguin. 321 pp. ISBN 9780753558287	2020-07-20		.txt	text/plain	3955	186	54	Honigsbaum surveys with biological detail the genealogy and history of influenza, the plague, Parrot Fever, Legionnaires Disease, Aids, SARS, Ebola, Zika and Covid-19. Honigsbaum describes ecological disruption amplifying the mutation and spread of a virus which had existed in its natural environment for centuries. From a postdigital perspective, the ten cases detailed by Honigsbaum in The Pandemic Century (2020) show how digital and wider technologies are not separate from the natural and social world. The questions then, which The Pandemic Century (Honigsbaum 2020) illustrates is whether to take a posthuman perspective and pull back from technological and human development and reduce ecological disruption and work with the natural environment as equals or to push on unabated with technological developments to go beyond what has been done already to 'fix' ourselves and the planet, including new viral outbreaks.	./cache/cord-029419-b0w9nomq.txt	./txt/cord-029419-b0w9nomq.txt