Jere­my Brown is a physi­cian and his­to­ri­an of sci­ence and med­i­cine and directs the Office of Emer­gency Care Research at the Nation­al Insti­tutes of Health. His pre­vi­ous books include Influen­za: The Hun­dred-Year Hunt to Cure the Dead­liest Dis­ease in His­to­ry, New Heav­ens and a New Earth: The Jew­ish recep­tion of Coper­ni­can Thought, Car­di­ol­o­gy Emer­gen­cies, and as edi­tor, The Oxford Amer­i­can Hand­book of Emer­gency Medicine.