Ep.28 - The great influenza of 1918-20
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English - June 10, 2020 20:01 - 49 minutes - 39.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsScience Health & Fitness Medicine medical history medicine rcpe royal college physicians edinburgh lectures Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This talk explores popular reactions to the ‘great influenza’ of 1918-20, primarily in relation to other epidemics of the 19th and early 20th centuries. It will contest scholars’ contention that big epidemics, regardless of the disease, inevitably stirred suspicion and blame of the ‘other’, and that an essential factor stirring that hate rested on the mysteriousness of the disease and medical practitioners’ inability to cure or control it.
Speaker: Professor Samuel Cohn (University Of Glasgow)
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