Session 5 | Pandemic, Creating a Usable Past: Epidemic History, COVID-19, and the Future of Health
From Department of History Department on May 18th, 2020
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From Department of History Department on May 18th, 2020
In the face of epidemic illness and sweeping death and with few effective treatments, social and medical experimentation thrives. In past outbreaks, new therapies, new vaccines, new surveillance practices, and new theories about bodies and difference have flourished – some effective and lasting, others dubious and destructive. What light does this history of uncertain knowledge shed on our today’s COVID-19 experience? How can history inform public understanding of the quest for solutions on the road ahead?
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