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Epidemics and Humanity: Twenty Lessons
Inside the storm, we must see its shape more clearly
Completed · 23 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
Leung Man-tao: Medical History and Anthropology Offer an Entirely New Understanding Yan Fei: A Major New Program Has Arrived at Vistopia History Has Returned to a Moment When Infectious Disease Governs Human Fate 1. The Black Death, Part I: The Plague That Killed Half of Europe 2. The Black Death, Part II: The Beginnings of Quarantine and State Intervention 3. Infectious Disease and War: Disease Conquers the Americas 4. Syphilis: Origins and Stigma 5. The Slave Trade, Disease, and Atlantic History 6. Smallpox and History's First Vaccine 7. Cholera, Part I: The Historical Investigation of a Mysterious New Disease 8. Cholera, Part II: Panic and Politics 9. Hospital-Acquired Infection and Handwashing 10. COVID-19 and the World Afterward 11. The “War on Epidemics” and Metaphors of Disease 12. Why Name Diseases Carefully? Names and Stigma 13. Leprosy Isolation: Individual Rights and Collective Power in Public Health 14. Ethics as the Foundation of Public-Health and Medical Research 15. Where Do Public-Health Slogans Come From? 16. Chinese Medicine, Epidemics, and Politics 17. The Politics of Global Health 18. The CDC and Democratic Oversight 19. Epidemics, Charity, and Moral Exemplars 20. Regarding the Pain of Others: Emotional Labor during Epidemics