OMNIA – All Things Penn Arts and Sciences – Podcast. We’ve been here before. In this episode, we talk to experts about past epidemics, how societies fought them, and how they changed life. Guests: Sarah Barringer Gordon, Alex Chase-Levenson, and others
SEASON 1, EPISODE 2 - In Other Times
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In Other Times | In These Times Details from the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 or the quarantines during the bubonic plague sound familiar today. In this episode, we talk to historians about how past societies dealt with disease, and what happened when a new understanding of germs revolutionized our approach but led us to overlook the larger picture of health A legal historian explains why the U.S. pandemic repose was state ... web.sas.upenn.edu |
GUESTS
David Barnes, Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science
Sarah Barringer Gordon, Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History
Alexander Chase-Levenson, Assistant Professor of History
Dagmawi Woubshet, Ahuja Family Presidential Associate Professor of English