Episode 121: Uninvited Guest (ad-free)

Some threats to our safety and well-being are obvious and easy to spot from a mile away. Over the course of history, people have become very skilled at looking for danger and avoiding it. But some threats are more difficult to spot—and once they strike, the results can be deadly.

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Further Reading

• William C. Campbell, “History of Trichinosis: Paget, Owen, and the Discovery of Trichinella Spiralis,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 53 (1979): 520-552. 
• Dickson D. Despommier, People, Parasites, and Plowshares: Learning from Our Body’s Most Terrifying Invaders (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013).
• Rosemary Drisdelle, Parasites: Tales of Humanity’s Most Unwelcome Guests (University of California Press 2010) [MCL].
• Robert Buckman, Human Wildlife: The Life That Lives on Us (Johns Hopkins University Press 2003).
• Justyna Jajszczok, The Parasite and Parasitism in Victorian Literature and Culture (PhD Dissertation, University of Silesia 2017).
• Sudarsana Srinivasan, “History of Discovery,” Parasites and Pestilence: Infectious Public Health Challenges, Stanford University, 2002.
• Sarah Cleary, “‘Maggot Maladies’: Origins of Horror as a Culturally Proscribed Entertainment,” The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature (Palgrave 2018), pp. 391–406.
• “This May Be the Ocean’s Most Horrifying Monster (And You’ve Probably Never Heard of It),” The Helm Lab Blog, October 2018, link.
• Christy Tidwell, “Monstrous Natures Within: Posthuman and New Materialist Ecohorror in Mira Grant’s Parasite,” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literaturre and Environment 21.3 (Summer 2014), pp. 538–549.
• K. Fuller, “Hookworm: Not a Pre-Columbian Pathogen,” Medical Anthropology 17.4 (June 1997), pp. 297–308.
• Edward Berenson, Heroes of Empire: Five Charismatic Men and the Conquest of Africa (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011).
• H. Harold Scott, A History of Tropical Medicine, vol. 1 (London: Edward Arnold & Co. 1939).
• Roy Porter, Blood & Guts: A Short History of Medicine (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013).
• Daniel R. Headrick, “Sleeping Sickness Epidemics and Colonial Responses in East and Central Africa, 1900–1940,” PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 8.4 (April 2014), e2772.
• Marcella Alsan, “The Effect of the TseTse Fly on African Development,” The American Economic Review 105.1 (January 2015), pp. 382–410.