Episode 128: History Of Pandemics

U THOUGHT WE WOULD GO THROUGH THIS HELLSCAPE WITHOUT SOME HISTORICAL CONTEXT? think again! This week we r talkin' to the SMARTEST pandemic academic we know! Elise Mitchell! She is joining us to chat all about past pandemics AND this one. Please check out her piece in The Atlantic (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/humanitys-long-history-of-making-epidemics-worse/607780/?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share) and her piece in Black Perspectives(https://www.aaihs.org/if-bitterness-were-a-whetstone-on-grief-history-and-covid-19/). You can also check out this discussion with some leading historians of race, medicine, and public health: Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Dr. Samuel Kelton Roberts, Jr., Columbia University and Dr. Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University: https://youtu.be/kUgaeZilGus. The historians who participated are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in public and academic settings and their work is worth following. Steven Thrasher's work is mentioned within our conversation, here's a link to one of his op-ed: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/03/social-distancing-coronavirus-aids-prisons.html. Theme music as always by Brandon Payton-Carrillo