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Boklistor

Kursböcker

Svenska

  • Infektionsmedicin: kliniska situationer – Bertil Christensson (red.) (2022)
  • Klinisk mikrobiologi: infektioner, immunologi, vårdhygien – Elsy Ericson & Thomas Ericson (2018)
  • Medicinsk mikrobiologi och immunologi – Michael Brauner (red.) (2021)
  • Vårdhygien: Vårdrelaterade infektioner och antibiotikaresistens – Göran Hedin (2020)
  • Grundläggande epidemiologi – R Bonita, R Beaglehole, T Kjellström (2010)

Engelska

  • Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases – Martin J. Blaser, Jeffrey I. Cohen & Steven M. Holland (eds.) (2025)
  • Kucers’ The Use of Antibiotics: A Clinical Review of Antibacterial, Antifungal, Antiparasitic, and Antiviral Drugs – M. Lindsay Grayson, Sara Cosgrove m.fl. (2017)
  • Infectious Diseases: A Clinical Short Course – Frederick S. Southwick (2020)
  • Immunology Made Ridiculously Simple – Massoud Mahmoudi (2025)
  • Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple – Mark T. Gladwin, William Trattler & C. Scott Mahan (2022)
  • Antibacterial Agents: Chemistry, Mode of Action, Mechanisms of Resistance and Clinical Applications – Rosaleen Anderson, Paul W. Groundwater et al. (2012)
  • Antibiotics: Challenges, Mechanisms, Opportunities – Christopher Walsh & Timothy Wencewicz (2016)
  • Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control – Roy Anderson & Robert May (1991)

Vaccin och Immunförsvaret

  • Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive – Philipp Dettmer (2021)
  • On Immunity: An Inoculation – Eula Biss (2014)
  • Long Shot: Vaccines for National Defense – Kendall Hoyt (2021)
  • Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All – Paul A. Offit (2011)
  • Vaccinated: One Man’s Quest to Defeat the World’s Deadliest Diseases – Paul A. Offit (2007)
  • The Cutter Incident: How America’s First Polio Vaccine Led to a Growing Vaccine Crisis – Paul A. Offit (2005)
  • The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic – Joe Miller, Özlem Türeci & Ugur Şahin (2021)
  • The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear – Seth Mnookin (2011)
  • The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease – Meredith Wadman (2017)

Antibiotika(resistens)

  • Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine – William Rosen (2017)
  • The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor’s Heroic Search for the World’s First Miracle Drug – Thomas Hager (2006)
  • The Microbes Fight Back: Antibiotic Resistance – Laura Bowater (2017)
  • Rising Plague: The Global Threat from Deadly Bacteria and Our Dwindling Arsenal to Fight Them – Brad Spellberg (2009)
  • Bakteriekriget – Erik Martiniussen (2019)
  • Efter antibiotika: Om smitta i en ny tid – Ola Gefvert & Åsa Erlandsson (2017)
  • Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues – Martin J. Blaser (2014)
  • The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost—and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail – Lina Zeldovich (2021)
  • The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir – Steffanie Strathdee & Thomas Patterson (2019)
  • The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor’s Heroic Search for the World’s First Miracle Drug – Thomas Hager (2007)

Parasiter

  • This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society – Kathleen McAuliffe (2016)
  • Parasites: Tales of Humanity’s Most Unwelcome Guests – Rosemary Drisdelle (2011)
  • New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People – Robert S. Desowitz (1987)
  • People, Parasites, and Plowshares: Learning from Our Body’s Most Terrifying Invaders – Dickson Despommier (2013)
  • Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature’s Most Dangerous Creatures – Carl Zimmer (2011)
  • Atlas of Human Parasitology – Lawrence R. Ash & Thomas C. Orihel (2007)
  • Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases: The Neglected Tropical Diseases – Peter J. Hotez (2020)
  • The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease – Pamela Nagami (2001)

Framtida pandemier

  • How to Prevent the Next Pandemic / Så förhindrar vi nästa pandemi – Bill Gates (2022)
  • Disease X: The 100 Days Mission to End Pandemics – Kate Kelland (2022)
  • Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic – David Quammen (2012; 2020)
  • The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance – Laurie Garrett (1994; 2020)
  • Outbreak Culture: The Ebola Crisis and the Next Epidemic – Pardis Sabeti & Lara Salahi (2018)
  • Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond – Sonia Shah (2016)
  • The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age – Nathan Wolfe (2011)
  • The Invisible Invaders: The Story of the Emerging Age of Viruses – Peter Radetsky (1991)
  • Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs – Michael T. Osterholm & Mark Olshaker (2017)
  • Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic – Emily Monosson (2023)
  • Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel (2014)
  • The Andromeda Strain – Michael Crichton (1969)
  • Pandemier! Från spanska sjukan till covid-19 – Amina Manzoor (2021)
  • Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching – Michael Greger (2006)
  • Fevered Planet – John Vidal (2024)

Biologiska vapen

  • Germ Warfare: A Very Graphic History – Max Brooks (2019)
  • Medical Aspects of Biological Warfare – US Army Medical Department Center and School (senaste upplagan 2018)
  • The Soviet Biological Weapons Program: A History – Milton Leitenberg & Raymond A. Zilinskas (2012)
  • The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy – David E. Hoffman (2009)
  • Bioterrorism and Biocrimes: The Illicit Use of Biological Agents Since 1900 – W. Seth Carus (2002)
  • Bioterror and Biowarfare: A Beginner’s Guide – Malcolm Dando (2006)
  • Biosecurity Dilemmas: Dreaded Diseases, Transparency, and the Public Trust – Christian Enemark (2017)
  • Biological Threats in the 21st Century – Filippa Lentzos (2021)
  • Synthetic Biology: Safety, Security, and Promise – Elizabeth E. (Gigi) Gronvall (2021)
  • Barriers to Bioweapons: The Challenges of Expertise and Organization for Weapons Development – Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley (2014)
  • Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World – Ken Alibek & Stephen Handelman (1999)
  • Essentials of Biological Security – Lisa A. Robinson, Jo L. Husbands & colleagues (senaste upplagan 2022)
  • The Demon in the Freezer – Richard Preston (2002)

Covid-19

Sverige

  • Flocken: Berättelsen om hur Sverige valde väg under pandemin – Johan Anderberg (2021)
  • Bland hobbyepidemiologer och expertmyndigheter: En resa i pandemins Sverige – Lena Einhorn (2022)
  • Tankar efter en pandemi: och lärdomarna inför nästa – Anders Tegnell & Fanny Härgestam (2023)
  • Vaccinjägaren – Richard Bergström (2023)
  • Mitt i krisen: beredskap och ledarskap i skarpt läge – två statssekreterare om lärdomarna från pandemin – Maja Fjaestad & Emma Lennartsson (2023)
  • En liten konstig bok om covid-19 – Jörgen Hassler (2020)
  • 36 dygn i dödens väntrum – Thomas Wilander & Marcus Birro (2024)
  • Virusvarning: om högrisklabb, fladdermöss och bioterrorism – Henrik Ennart & Gunilla von Hall (2023)
  • Vad händer nu med framtiden?: 20 visioner om Sverige efter corona – Christian von Essen (2020)
  • Postcovidlotteriet: om pandemins osynliga svans – Lisa Norén (2023)

Globalt

  • On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service – Anthony Fauci (2024)
  • Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control – Dali L. Yang (2022)
  • Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 – Matt Ridley & Alina Chan (2021)
  • The Big Fail: What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind – Joe Nocera & Bethany McLean (2023)
  • Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic – Scott Gottlieb (2021)
  • The Premonition: A Pandemic Story – Michael Lewis (2021)
  • Pandemic Aftermath: How Coronavirus Changes Global Society – Trond Undheim (2020)
  • Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus – David Quammen (2022)

HIV/AIDS

  • Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar – Jonas Gardell (2012–2013)
  • My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story – Abraham Verghese (1994)
  • And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic – Randy Shilts (1987)
  • AIDS and Its Metaphors – Susan Sontag (1989)
  • Där kärlek sker – Bodil Sjöström (2023)
  • How to Survive a Plague – David France (2016)
  • The Great Believers – Rebecca Makkai (2018)
  • The Gifts of the Body – Rebecca Brown (1994)
  • Som en osynlig sten i mitt hjärta – Donald Boström & Mats Ögren Wanger
  • Hiv och Aids – Lars Moberg
  • Denying AIDS: Conspiracy Theories, Pseudoscience, and Human Tragedy – Seth C. Kalichman (2009)

Tuberkulos

  • Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection – John Green (2025)
  • I en sal på lasarettet: En berättelse om min mamma, tuberkulosen och folkhemmet – Björn Wiman (2023)
  • Fem hjärtan i en tändsticksask – P C Jersild (1989)
  • I dödens väntrum – Sven Stolpe (1940)
  • Körkarlen – Selma Lagerlöf (1912)
  • Black Angels – Maria Smilios (2023)
  • The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History – Vidya Krishnan (2021)
  • Discovering Tuberculosis: A Global History 1900 to the Present – Christian W. McMillen (2015)
  • Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis – Helen Bynum (2012)
  • The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis – Thomas Dormandy (1999)
  • Stigmatized: A Mongolian Girl’s Journey from Stigma & Illness to Empowerment – Handaa Enkh-Amgalan (2021)
  • Pathologies of Power – Paul Farmer (2003)
  • Blind Spot: How Neoliberalism Infiltrated Global Health – Salman Keshavjee (2022)
  • The Greatest Benefit to All Mankind – Roy Porter (1997)
  • Dying for Growth – Jim Yong Kim (2000)

Polio

  • Polio: An American Story – David M. Oshinsky (2005)
  • Nemesis – Philip Roth (2010)
  • Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio – Jeffrey Kluger (2006)
  • The Cutter Incident: How America’s First Polio Vaccine Led to a Growing Vaccine Crisis – Paul A. Offit (2005)

Pest

  • La Peste / Pesten – Albert Camus (1947)
  • Decamerone (eng, sv, it)– Giovanni Boccaccio (1353)
  • A Journal of the Plague Year – Daniel Defoe (1722)
  • Pestens år: Döden i Stockholm 1710 – Magnus Västerbro (2021)
  • The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time – John Kelly (2005)
  • The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe – James Belich (2024)
  • The Black Death, 1346–1353: The Complete History – Ole J. Benedictow (2004).
  • The Black Death: A Personal History – John Hatcher (2008)
  • In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made – Norman F. Cantor (2001)
  • The Black Death – Philip Ziegler (1969)
Ytterligare pestlitteratur

Malaria

  • The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years – Sonia Shah (2010)
  • The Fever Trail: The Hunt for the Cure for Malaria – Mark Honigsbaum (2001)
  • The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria – Irving F. J. Shaw (1996)
  • Mosquitoes, Malaria, and Man: A History of the Hostilities Since 1880 – André‑Jean T. R. de Roode & Michael Levin (red.)
  • The Prevention of Malaria – Ronald Ross (1911)
  • Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine, and Non Citizenship in British India – Rohan Deb Roy (2017)
  • Maharadjor och malariamyggor – Oscar Rundblom (1959)

Ebola

  • Ebola: Story of an Outbreak – Laurie Garrett (1995)
  • The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story – Richard Preston (1994)
  • Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come – Richard Preston (2019)
  • Ebola: The Natural and Human History – David Quammen (2014)
    Historisk och biologisk genomgång av Ebola: dess ursprung i naturen, spridning och påverkan på mänskliga samhällen.
  • Ebola: Profile of a Killer Virus – Dorothy H. Crawford (2009)
  • Outbreak Culture: The Ebola Crisis and the Next Epidemic – Pardis Sabeti & Lara Salahi (2018)
  • Ebola ’76 – Amir Tag Elsir (2015)
  • Ebola – Marcel Aponno (2012)

Spanska sjukan

  • Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History – Catharine Arnold (2008)
  • America’s Forgotten Pandemic – Alfred W. Crosby (1989)
  • Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels – Katherine Anne Porter (1939)
  • Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World – Laura Spinney (2017)
  • Memories of a Catholic Girlhood – Mary McCarthy (1957)
  • Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It / Spanska sjukan : historien om den stora influensaepidemin 1918 och jakten på det virus som orsakade den – Gina Kolata (1999)
  • The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History – John M. Barry (2004)
  • The Plague of the Spanish Lady: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919 – Richard Collier (1974)

Kolera

Syfilis

  • Syphilis and the Columbian Myth: Brief Medical History of Treponematoses – Dan Danielsson (2024)
  • Pox: Genius, Madness, and the Mysteries of Syphilis – Deborah Hayden (2003)
  • Sex, Sin, and Science: A History of Syphilis in America – John Parascandola (2008)

Andra infektioner

  • Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus – Bill Wasik och Monica Murphy (2011)
  • The Family that Couldn’t Sleep – D.T. Max (2006)
  • The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History – Molly Caldwell Crosby (2006)
  • The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic – Gay Salisbury och Laney Salisbury (2003)
  • Livet utan ben går vidare – Elin Rantatalo (2023)

Bakterier, mikrober och djurhållning

  • Microbe Hunters – Paul de Kruif (1926)
  • The Germ Detectives – Jim Ollhoff (2008)
  • The Human Superorganism: How the Microbiome Is Revolutionizing the Pursuit of a Healthy Life – Rodney Dietert (2016)
  • I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life – Ed Yong (2016)
  • Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats – Maryn McKenna (2017)
  • Big Farms Make Big Flu – Rob Wallace (2016)
  • Dr Warhol’s Periodic Table of Microbes: The Small Guide to Small Things – John Warhol (2009)

Infektionshistoria

  • Farsoter och epidemier: en historisk odyssé från pest till ebola – Per-Erik Åbom (2015)
  • Duel Without End: Mankind’s Battle with Microbes – Stig S. Frøland (2022)
  • Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped Our History – Dorothy H. Crawford (2007)
  • Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present – Frank M. Snowden (2008)
  • Get Well Soon: History’s Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them – Jennifer Wright (2017)
  • Rats, Lice and History – Hans Zinsser (1935)
  • Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative – Priscilla Wald (2008)
  • Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues – Paul Farmer (2021)
  • Mountains Beyond Mountains – Tracy Kidder (2003)