Episode 69 – Ottoman Medicines and Disease with Miri Shefer Mossensohn
Miri Shefer Mossensohn comes on the podcast to talk about her work on Ottoman histories of medicine and disease.
Infectious Historians
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Ben Trump (US Army) joins Merle and Lee to discuss his job and its ties to Covid, policy and history.
Recent Episodes
Episode 68 – Persecution during the Black Death with Tzafrir Barzilay
Tzafrir Barzilay (Ben Gurion University of the Negev) comes on the podcast to discuss his work on persecution of minorities before and during the Black Death, particularly through allegations of…
Episode 67 – Plague in Bombay and Urban Ecology with Emily Webster
Emily Webster (University of Chicago) talks about her work on plague outbreaks in Bombay at the turn of the 20th century and the importance of ecology to the study of…
Episode 66 – Early Modern Pandemics, Quantitative Research and Inequality with Daniel Curtis
Daniel Curtis (Erasmus University Rotterdam) joins Merle and Lee to discuss his diverse work on early modern pandemics, inequality, quantitative methodologies and movies.
Episode 65 – Scientific Freedom, the Cold War, and Communicating Science with Audra Wolfe
Audra Wolfe discusses her work on scientific freedom and its impact on how we think about science from the Cold War to the present day.
Episode 64 – Commerce, Capitalism, and the Making of Modern Medicine with Zachary Dorner
Zachary Dorner (University of Maryland) joins Merle and Lee to discuss his work on the role of early modern commerce and capitalism in changing how medicine is administered and medical…
Episode 63 – How Plague was Taught during a Pandemic with Janet Kay
Janet Kay (Princeton) returns to the podcast for her promised reflections on teaching a course on plagues and pandemics during the Spring 2021 semester with lessons learned and ideas for…
Episode 62 – Cancer with Robin Scheffler
Robin Scheffler (MIT) joins Merle and Lee to discuss his work on cancer, including the perception of cancer as an infectious disease.
Recent Posts
Fever in 2021? Isolation. Fever in 1884? Immolation.
Fever in 2021? Isolation. Fever in 1884? Immolation. Ethan Friedrich / May 17, 2021 Whether at the point of a gun or down the lens of a futuristic thermal camera,…
COVID-19 mortality
The media visibility of COVID-19 mortality Lee Mordechai / April 13, 2020 The current pandemic, like other disasters, reveals much about the workings of different societies. Mortality – the most…
Responses to a Pandemic: Past and Present
Responses to a Pandemic: Past and Present Abigail Agresta / April 9, 2020 “…Some people were of the opinion that a sober and abstemious mode of living considerably reduced the…
Quarantine in the 19th Century Mediterranean and Self-Isolation Today
Quarantine in the 19th Century Mediterranean and Self-Isolation Today Alex Chase-Levenson / April 3, 2020 Quarantines, in response to epidemic disease, were first set up in the wake of…
Gardening, Baking, and Cooking
Gardening, Baking, and Cooking Merle Eisenberg / March 30, 2020 I wanted to start off on a lighter note for this first blog post as a way to introduce you…