David Rosner’s newest book, Building the Worlds that Kill Us: Disease, Death and Inequality in American History, was named one of Smithsonian Magazine’s Best Books of 2024.

David Rosner‘s newest book, Building the Worlds that Kill Us: Disease, Death and Inequality in American History, was named one of Smithsonian Magazine’s Best Books of 2024. Co-authored with Gerald Markowitz, the book explores how 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.