We’ve made some important scientific progress by tackling puzzling, deadly outbreaks throughout history. But the social side of epidemiology is a whole different story.
A 1918 photo of an influenza ward at the U.S. Naval Hospital on Mare Island, California. In 2019, internal medicine physician Lydia Kang teamed up with librarian and historian Nate Pedersen on a potential book. Two years later, their workhas arrived, investigating the precise origins of a laundry
Q: How did the emergence of COVID-19 influence your writing process? Did it reinforce any historical patterns related to the disease outbreaks you researched? Author Lydia Kang is a practicing internal medicine physician in Omaha, Nebraska. She has previously collaborated with Nate Pedersen on the 2017 book, Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything.
There's also an impressive resilience in the human species that was highlighted in the book: the ability to have resurfaced over and over again, throughout history, from much worse diseases than COVID.Q: Why do you think people tend to resort to placing blame during outbreaks, particularly against marginalized groups?
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