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What can History tell us about Epidemics?

Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:11:44
Publish Date: 2020-04-10 09:36:27
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Four historians discuss what we learn from history about how diseases spread, and how we respond to them.


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John Henderson: ‘Strategies to cope with plague have formed the basis for later policies’. Read by Paul Lay.


Patricia Fara: ‘Fear and suspicion multiply more rapidly than any virus’. Read by Katie Holyoak.


Samuel Cohn: ‘Epidemics strike from the outside and are carried in’. Read by Paul Lay.


Sandra Hempel: ‘Smallpox remains the only human disease to be eradicated’. Read by Katie Holyoak.


Introductions read by James Gribben. Music by Kai Engel.







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