Book review: The end of plagues: the global battle against infectious disease by John Rhodes

"The End of Plagues: The Global Battle against Infectious Disease." John Rhodes. Palgrave Macmillan. October 2013. --- The End of Plagues is a fascinating book and well worth a read for anyone interested in the history of medicine, finds Sally Brown. Spanning three centuries, John Rhodes’s work weaves together the discovery of vaccination, the birth and growth of immunology, and the fight to eradicate the world’s most feared diseases.