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Remains to be SeenRTBS 02 03 "COVID-19: Rhetorics of Infection, Resources of Resistance"In this episode, we join forces with Pitt's Center for Bioethics & Health Law to present a special Medical Humanities Mondays panel discussion on the COVID-19 pandemic. Mari Webel of Pitt's Department of History, Lisa S. Parker of the Center for Bioethics & Health Law, and our own Jake Dechant of Pitt's School of Nursing address the problems of understanding and dealing with a crisis in which we must always act on partial knowledge, filtering that from a tumult of questionable information and disinformation. We discuss the naming of epidemics, the sacrifices of healthcare workers, the pitfalls of modeling, and our fav...
2020-04-2959 min