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A compassionate, sweeping history of the transformation in American attitudes toward animals by the best-selling authors of RabidOver just a few decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the United States underwent a moral revolution on behalf of animals. Before the Civil War, animals' suffering had rarely been discussed, horses pulling carriages and carts were routinely beaten in public view, and dogs were pitted against each other for en...

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The most fatal virus known to science, rabies-a disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans-kills nearly one hundred percent of its victims once the infection takes root in the brain. In this critically acclaimed exploration, journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy chart four thousand years of the history, science, and cultural mythology of rabies. From Greek myths to zombie flicks, from the laboratory heroics of Louis Past...

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Journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy chart the history, science, and cultural mythology of rabiesa virus with a nearly 100 percent fatality rate in the absence of vaccination. The suffering this disease inflicted became the stuff of legend.

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