Why people recommend it
Outbreak! by Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew is an encyclopedia documenting extraordinary social behaviors, moral panics, and the psychological mechanisms behind how they spread through populations. On an episode of Stuff They Don't Want You To Know, the host brought up the book as an old friend of the program, utilizing its detailed examinations of historical mass hysteria to illustrate how moral panics manifest and propagate in society.
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“And I've brought with me today an old friend of ours, this book, 'Outbreak: The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior,' which is about moral panics and how they spread!”