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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Update: Epidemics in History

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Update: Epidemics in History

FromJAMA Author Interviews


Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Update: Epidemics in History

FromJAMA Author Interviews

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Length:
33 minutes
Released:
Apr 6, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Infectious epidemics have always driven change and triggered discrimination in human societies. Frank Snowden, DPhil, Professor Emeritus of History and History of Medicine at Yale University and author of Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present (Yale University Press, 2019), puts the COVID-19 pandemic in historical context.
Released:
Apr 6, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Interviews with leading researchers and thinkers in health care about practice-changing research, innovations, and the most pressing issues facing medicine and health care today from JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.