David Rosner’s newest book, Building the Worlds that Kill Us: Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History, will release on October 8th, 2024. 

David Rosner‘s newest book, Building the Worlds that Kill Us: Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History, will release on October 8th, 2024. Through the lens of death and disease, Building the Worlds That Kill Us provides a new way of understanding the history of the United States from the colonial era to the present. David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz demonstrate that the changing rates and kinds of illnesses reflect social, political, and economic structures and inequalities of race, class, and gender. These deep inequities determine the disparate health experiences of rich and poor, Black and white, men and women, immigrant and native-born, boss and worker, Indigenous and settler.