Politics Theory Other // New Pandemics, Old Politics w/ Alex De Waal
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English - April 24, 2021 18:59 - 35 minutes - 38 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsNews History Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Alex De Waal joins PTO to talk about his new book, New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease. We discussed the history of pandemic disease control, from the cholera outbreaks of the 19th century to HIV/AIDS and the Covid19 crisis. We chatted why the war on disease narrative is so unhelpful, how colonial era vaccination programmes spread HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, and why the Great Influenza pandemic of 1918-19 is so little discussed and written about, despite its extraordinary death toll.