--- title: Mark Honigsbaum | TIME description: Honigsbaum is a medical historian and the author of The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris. canonical: https://time.com/author/mark-honigsbaum/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/mark-honigsbaum/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Mark Honigsbaum ## Mark Honigsbaum Honigsbaum is a medical historian and the author of [_The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris_](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393254755/ref=as%5Fli%5Fqf%5Fasin%5Fil%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=time037-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0393254755&linkId=b55ce9b349b7238b76878567b66ab4e7). ## Mark Honigsbaum *  Feb 7, 2020 ### [How Our Modern World Creates Outbreaks Like Coronavirus](https://time.com/5779578/modern-world-epidemics-coronavirus/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/mark-honigsbaum/","name":"Mark Honigsbaum"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/mark-honigsbaum/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/mark-honigsbaum/"},"name":"Mark Honigsbaum","jobTitle":null,"description":"Honigsbaum is a medical historian and the author of The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris.","url":"https://time.com/author/mark-honigsbaum/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```