Letters and Politics

The History of Development and Contagious Disease

Guest: Sonia Shah is a science journalist and contributor to the Nation Magazine.  She  is the author of PANDEMIC: Tracking Contagion from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond, and most recently, The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move. Her latest article in the Nation is It’s Time to Tell the Truth About Coronavirus: Our Lives Depend on It.

 

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The Plague Doctor by Gerhart Altzenbach, 1656, on Wikipedia.org