Shows
Collecting COVID: Oral HistoriesProfessor Erica ChartersGeorgina Ferry interviews Erica Charters, Professor of the Global History of Medicine, 6 December 2021. Topics discussed include (00:00:30) EC's early studies in the history of disease, doctorate at Oxford on the history of medicine (under Professor Mark Harrison, with particular interest in disease during the Seven Years' War), lecture post at Oxford from 2009; (00:01:40) interest in disease and the human experience; (00:02:47) long-term perspectives on disease and historical perspectives including social, cultural, political; (00:05:15) historic pandemics and Charles Rosenberg article “What is an Epidemic?” written during the AIDS epidemic; (00:07:50) tools used to explore the narrative of an epidemic; (00:10:12) first memory of COVID-19 in early 2020; (00:11:42) EC's rese...
2022-07-2952 min
How Epidemics EndDora Vargha and Arthur Rose on Epidemics, Expectations, and EndsKristin Heitman talks with Dora Vargha (Exeter) and Arthur Rose (Exeter) about the nature and power of narrative in forming both our expectations about epidemics and the ways that we decide when and how they have ended.
2021-10-0817 minHow Epidemics EndAlberto Giubilini and Pandemic EthicsDr. Alberto Giubilini (Oxford) and Dr. Kristin Heitman discuss ethical issues raised in efforts to balance individual freedoms and social measures to control the spread of disease.
2021-10-0815 minHow Epidemics EndHow Epidemics End: IntroductionDr Erica Charters (Oxford) and Dr Kristin Heitman (Independent Historian) discuss their research into the conclusion of epidemics.
2021-10-0814 min