IsisCB Special Issue on Pandemics Episode 3

This episode of the podcast companion to the Isis CB special issue on pandemics, focuses on the very substance of pandemics, namely the diseases themselves.  Join Mark Honigsbaum, Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva, and Michael Bresalier in a conversation about the impact of disease on history and on the condition of our planet vis-a-vis current diseases and those that may emerge, as well as the role and responsibility of the historian in dealing with pandemic incidents. 

 

Mark Honigsbaum, City University London

Author: The “Spanish” Flu and the Pandemic Imaginary

 

 

 

 

Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva, University of St. Andrews

Author, with Jules Skotnes-Brown: Emerging Infectious Diseases and Disease Emergence: Critical, Ontological and Epistemological Approaches

Reviewer: Vaccination and Pandemics

 

 

 

Michael Bresalier, Swansea University

Reviewer: 

1) The “Spanish” Flu and the Pandemic Imaginary

2) Emerging Infectious Diseases and Disease Emergence: Critical, Ontological and Epistemological Approaches