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The coming Trump administration appointment of Robert F Kennedy Jnr should terrify us all. An oddball conspiracy theorist who has a track record of causing real damage to the health of millions is to be the next Health Secretary of the United States. The Matts are joined by one of the world's leading authorities on vaccines - Mark Honigsbaum - to understand the danger RFK Jr represents, not just to the US but to us all. But first - the Matts bid a fond farewell to John Prescott and wish there were many more of his ilk around today. Enjoy!Join The Two Matts LIVE this Monday! https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/2mattslive/Subscribe to The New European and get Alistair Campbell's 2024 Diaries: https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/2matts/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode three 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 Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva, University of St. Andrews Michael Bresalier, Swansea University For more information and additional resources, go to https://www.chstm.org/video/149 Recorded March 13, 2024.
In the foundational texts of Western civilisation (the Bible, Iliad), plagues are symbols of divine retribution, signifying Godly displeasure with human misdeeds. But in Thucydides' classic account of the mysterious plague that swept Athens in 430 BC, Camus's La Peste, and Emily St John Mandel's Station Eleven, literary accounts of plagues and pandemics are also morality tales and metaphors for the dissolution of the social bonds necessary for the functioning of modern societies. In this talk, I bring the history of plague writing into dialogue with the history of trust, to examine what plague texts tell us about our foundational myths and our obsession with calamities and crises. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 39002]
In the foundational texts of Western civilisation (the Bible, Iliad), plagues are symbols of divine retribution, signifying Godly displeasure with human misdeeds. But in Thucydides' classic account of the mysterious plague that swept Athens in 430 BC, Camus's La Peste, and Emily St John Mandel's Station Eleven, literary accounts of plagues and pandemics are also morality tales and metaphors for the dissolution of the social bonds necessary for the functioning of modern societies. In this talk, I bring the history of plague writing into dialogue with the history of trust, to examine what plague texts tell us about our foundational myths and our obsession with calamities and crises. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 39002]
In the foundational texts of Western civilisation (the Bible, Iliad), plagues are symbols of divine retribution, signifying Godly displeasure with human misdeeds. But in Thucydides' classic account of the mysterious plague that swept Athens in 430 BC, Camus's La Peste, and Emily St John Mandel's Station Eleven, literary accounts of plagues and pandemics are also morality tales and metaphors for the dissolution of the social bonds necessary for the functioning of modern societies. In this talk, I bring the history of plague writing into dialogue with the history of trust, to examine what plague texts tell us about our foundational myths and our obsession with calamities and crises. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 39002]
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In the foundational texts of Western civilisation (the Bible, Iliad), plagues are symbols of divine retribution, signifying Godly displeasure with human misdeeds. But in Thucydides' classic account of the mysterious plague that swept Athens in 430 BC, Camus's La Peste, and Emily St John Mandel's Station Eleven, literary accounts of plagues and pandemics are also morality tales and metaphors for the dissolution of the social bonds necessary for the functioning of modern societies. In this talk, I bring the history of plague writing into dialogue with the history of trust, to examine what plague texts tell us about our foundational myths and our obsession with calamities and crises. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 39002]
In the foundational texts of Western civilisation (the Bible, Iliad), plagues are symbols of divine retribution, signifying Godly displeasure with human misdeeds. But in Thucydides' classic account of the mysterious plague that swept Athens in 430 BC, Camus's La Peste, and Emily St John Mandel's Station Eleven, literary accounts of plagues and pandemics are also morality tales and metaphors for the dissolution of the social bonds necessary for the functioning of modern societies. In this talk, I bring the history of plague writing into dialogue with the history of trust, to examine what plague texts tell us about our foundational myths and our obsession with calamities and crises. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 39002]
In the foundational texts of Western civilisation (the Bible, Iliad), plagues are symbols of divine retribution, signifying Godly displeasure with human misdeeds. But in Thucydides' classic account of the mysterious plague that swept Athens in 430 BC, Camus's La Peste, and Emily St John Mandel's Station Eleven, literary accounts of plagues and pandemics are also morality tales and metaphors for the dissolution of the social bonds necessary for the functioning of modern societies. In this talk, I bring the history of plague writing into dialogue with the history of trust, to examine what plague texts tell us about our foundational myths and our obsession with calamities and crises. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 39002]
In the foundational texts of Western civilisation (the Bible, Iliad), plagues are symbols of divine retribution, signifying Godly displeasure with human misdeeds. But in Thucydides' classic account of the mysterious plague that swept Athens in 430 BC, Camus's La Peste, and Emily St John Mandel's Station Eleven, literary accounts of plagues and pandemics are also morality tales and metaphors for the dissolution of the social bonds necessary for the functioning of modern societies. In this talk, I bring the history of plague writing into dialogue with the history of trust, to examine what plague texts tell us about our foundational myths and our obsession with calamities and crises. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 39002]
As the UK's independent public inquiry into Covid-19 gets underway, members of the Covid bereaved complain that they are not being given an opportunity to testify. Today, in the second part of our two-part special, Mark speaks to the parents of Susan Sullivan, a woman with Down's Syndrome who died of Covid-19 at Barnet General Hospital on March 28, 2020, after being deemed “not for resuscitation” and he reveals the findings of a confidential investigation by the Royal Free NHS Hospital Trust into her death. The report, which makes for shocking reading, found that Susan was not seen by a consultant until 20 hours after admission to Barnet's Accident and Emergency department and that the fact that she had Down's Syndrome and had been fitted with a pacemaker should not have excluded her from intensive care. Mark also speaks to Kamran Mallick, the CEO of Disability Rights UK, about what the Sullivan case reveals about the pattern of discrimination experienced by people with learning disabilities across the NHS, and to Dominic Wilkinson, a medical ethicist, who explains the challenge to doctors of weighing the harms and benefits of invasive procedures to patients. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With: John and Ida Sullivan www.covidfamiliesforjustice.org / @CovidJusticeuk Kamran Mallick, CEO of Disability Rights UK. www.disabilityrights.uk / @KamranMallick Professor Dominic Wilkinson @NeonatalEthics Professor of Medical Ethics and Director of Medical Ethics at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. Dominic is also a Consultant Neonatologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital and a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College. www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/about-jesus-college/our-community/people/professor-dominic-wilkinson/ Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast Blog: markhonigsbaum.substack.com This episode of Going Viral has been produced with the support of a grant from the Higher Education Innovation Fund at City, University of London. It is part of the project, “Commemorating Covid, Remembering Pandemics”, www.rememberingpandemics.com If you enjoy our podcast - please leave us a rating or review. Thank you!
As the UK's independent public inquiry into Covid-19 gets underway, members of the Covid bereaved complain that they are not being given an opportunity to testify. Today, Mark speaks to the parents of Susan Sullivan, a Down's Syndrome woman who died of Covid-19 at Barnet General Hospital on March 28, 2020, after being deemed “not for resuscitation” and being denied access to intensive care. The Sullivans have long suspected that their daughter was the victim of medical bias and may have survived if the hospital had granted her statutory right to have a family member at her bedside. Determined to be Susan's voice, John and Ida Sullivan launched their own investigation into Susan's death and uncovered a catalogue of medical errors in the process. We also hear from Baroness Heather Hallet, the chair of the UK public inquiry, and from Fran Hall and other members of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With: Fran Hall @FranFD1 John and Ida Sullivan www.covidfamiliesforjustice.org Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast Blog: markhonigsbaum.substack.com This episode of Going Viral has been produced with the support of a grant from the Higher Education Innovation Fund at City, University of London. It is part of the project, “Commemorating Covid, Remembering Pandemics”, www.rememberingpandemics.com If you enjoy our podcast - please leave us a rating or review. Thank you!
As sure as night follows day, we will face another pandemic, so how can we learn from the mistakes made during Covid-19, to ensure our response next time is not only more effective, but also more ethical? Today Mark and his guests Ilina Singh, James Wilson and John Prideaux dissect the British Government's approach during the Covid-19 pandemic and explore the failure to engage seriously with the ethical challenges the pandemic raised, comparing the British approach with those in the USA and China. And they debate how ethicists and ethical thinking could play a more central role in deciding how to respond to the next pandemic. With Catherine Joynson of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. Produced in collaboration with the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With: Catherine Joynson Associate Director, Nuffield Council on Bioethics www.nuffieldbioethics.org | @CathJoynson | @Nuffbioethics John Prideaux The political correspondent at the Economist. www.mediadirectory.economist.com/people/john-prideaux/ | https://www.economist.com/ | @JohnPrideaux | @TheEconomist Ilina Singh Professor of Neuroscience & Society at the University of Oxford and co-director at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Ethics and the Humanities. Principal Investigator on The UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator, a collaborative project that brought UK ethics research expertise to bear on the multiple, ongoing ethical challenges present by Covid-19. https://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/team/ilina-singh | @OxPsychiatry James Wilson Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Health Humanities Centre at UCL and co-investigator on the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator. www.ucl.ac.uk/philosophy/people/permanent-academic-staff/james-wilson | @jamesgswilson | @ucl Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Co-producer: Kate Jopling @katejopling Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast Blog: markhonigsbaum.substack.com This episode of Going Viral on trust in the pandemic, has been produced in collaboration with the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator. The Ethics Accelerator was funded by the UKRI Covid-19 research and innovation fund. https://ukpandemicethics.org/ | @PandemicEthics_ If you enjoy our podcast - please leave us a rating or review. Thank you!
From the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the British Government made it clear that a baseline level of mortality from Covid was being “priced in” to its decision making: on March 12th 2020, Boris Johnson stopped short of ordering the sort of lockdowns seen in other countries and warned that, “many more families are going to lose loved ones before their time.” This approach belied a series of value judgements and trade-offs where people's lives were set against other values, such as personal liberty and the economy. Today Mark and his guests Anjana Ahuja, Martin McKee and Dominic Wilkinson, reappraise this approach. With Ceinwen Giles and Matt Fowler. Produced in collaboration with the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With: Anjana Ahuja Contributing writer on science for the Financial Times and co-author of the bestselling ‘Spike: The Virus Vs The People' - the inside story of the Covid-19 pandemic with Sir Jeremy Farrar. https://www.ft.com/anjana-ahuja / @anjahuja Ceinwen Giles Co-CEO of Shine Cancer Support, member of the General Advisory Council of The King's Fund and Chair of the Patient and Public Voices Forum for the NHS England Cancer Programme. www.shinecancersupport.org / @ceineken Professor Martin McKee Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Martin is Research Director of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and he's published many scientific papers and books on health and health policy, with a particular focus on countries undergoing political and social transition. www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/mckee.martin / @martinmckee Matt Fowler Co-Founder of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice. www.jrct.org.uk/covid-19-bereaved-families / @CovidJusticeUK Professor Dominic Wilkinson Professor of Medical Ethics and Director of Medical Ethics at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. Dominic is also a Consultant Neonatologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital and a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College. He is one the editors of a forthcoming book with Oxford University Press on pandemic ethics. www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/about-jesus-college/our-community/people/professor-dominic-wilkinson/ / @NeonatalEthics Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Co-producer: Kate Jopling @katejopling Cover art by Patrick Blower. www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast This episode of Going Viral on trust in the pandemic, has been produced in collaboration with the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator. The Ethics Accelerator was funded by the UKRI Covid-19 research and innovation fund. https://ukpandemicethics.org/ / @PandemicEthics_ If you enjoy our podcast - please leave us a rating or review. Thank you!
Professor Sir Michael Marmot has been researching health inequalities and their relationship to social injustice for more than 50 years. He has long been a vocal critic of how health inequalities undermine social cohesion and the ability of health systems to respond effectively to pandemics and other health emergencies. Despite being an outspoken critic of austerity and the policies of successive Coalition and Conservative British governments, he was named a Companion of Honour in the 2023 New Year Honour's List. Today Prof Sir Michael Marmot speaks to Mark about Covid-19 and health inequalities as well as his decades-long research into this field. This interview is featured in our companion episode: ‘All In It Together: Were Unequal Outcomes Inevitable during Covid-19?' Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With: Professor Sir Michael Marmot Professor of Epidemiology at University College London, Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity, and Past President of the World Medical Association. https://www.instituteofhealthequity.org/ @MichaelMarmot @marmotihe Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Co-producer: Kate Jopling @katejopling Cover art by Patrick Blower. www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast This episode of Going Viral on trust in the pandemic, has been produced in collaboration with the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator. A partnership between the Universities of Oxford, Bristol and Edinburgh, University College London, and the Nuffield Council on Bioethics (the Principal Investigator was Professor Ilina Singh, University of Oxford). The Ethics Accelerator was funded by the UKRI Covid-19 research and innovation fund. https://ukpandemicethics.org/ / @PandemicEthics_ If you enjoy our podcast - please leave us a rating or review. Thank you!
When Covid-19 first struck the UK, the disease was described as “a great leveller”. But it soon became clear that Covid's impacts were not evenly distributed - we may have been in the same storm, but we were in different boats. Today Mark and his guests Charlotte Augst, Halima Begum and Beth Kamunge-Kpodo discuss unequal outcomes during the Covid-19. With Professor Sir Michael Marmot and Pastor Mick Fleming. Produced in collaboration with the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With: Dr. Charlotte Augst Former Chief Executive of National Voices, a coalition of charities working on health issues and which was extremely active highlighting issues of inequality during the pandemic. www.nationalvoices.org.uk / @CharlotteAugst Dr. Halima Begum Chief Executive of the Runnymede Trust, the UK's leading race equality think tank. https://www.runnymedetrust.org / @Halima_Begum Pastor Mick Fleming Founder of Church on the Street Ministries, Burnley. @PastorFleming Dr. Beth Kamunge-Kpodo Beth is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Reading. She has a longstanding interest in exploring and addressing various forms of inequality. www.reading.ac.uk/law/our-staff/beth-kamunge-kpodo Professor Sir Michael Marmot Professor of Epidemiology at University College London, Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity, and Past President of the World Medical Association. Professor Marmot has led research groups on health inequalities for over 50 years. @MichaelMarmot https://www.instituteofhealthequity.org Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Co-producer: Kate Jopling @katejopling Cover art by Patrick Blower. www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast This episode of Going Viral on trust in the pandemic, has been produced in collaboration with the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator. It is a partnership between the Universities of Oxford, Bristol and Edinburgh, University College London, and the Nuffield Council on Bioethics (the Principal Investigator was Professor Ilina Singh, University of Oxford). The Ethics Accelerator was funded by the UKRI Covid-19 research and innovation fund. https://ukpandemicethics.org/ @PandemicEthics_ If you enjoy our podcast - please leave us a rating or review. Thank you!
The coronavirus pandemic raised significant questions about public trust: trust in science, trust in politicians and trust in the public health messaging. Today Mark and his guests Anjana Ahuja; Sarah Cunningham-Burley; Charles Kwaku-Odoi and Christina Pagel discuss trust during the Covid-19 pandemic for this Going Viral special, produced in collaboration with the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With: Anjana Ahuja Anjana Ahuja is a contributing writer on science for the Financial Times, offering weekly opinion on significant developments in global science, health and technology. Last year she co-authored the bestselling ‘Spike: The Virus Vs The People' - the inside story of the Covid-19 pandemic with Sir Jeremy Farrar. Spike was shortlisted for the 2022 Orwell Prize for Political Writing and the 2022 Royal Society Science Book Prize. https://www.ft.com/anjana-ahuja / @anjahuja Professor Sarah Cunningham-Burley Sarah is Professor of Medical and Family Sociology and Dean of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Sarah led on work around engaging the public as part of the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator which finished its work in August 2022. She brought together members of the public to consider ethical issues arising during the Covid-19 pandemic. https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/sarah-cunningham-burley / @Sarah_C_Burley Rev Charles Kwaku-Odoi Charles is Chief Officer of the Caribbean and African Health Network (CAHN) and a Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of the county of Greater Manchester. Charles works to bring equity and fairness across a range of important health and wellbeing issues for people of the Caribbean and African Diaspora. He sits on a wide range of local and national governance boards including Macc (Manchester Community Central), Faith Network for Manchester, SAGE Ethnicity Subgroup, Greater Manchester Voluntary Community & Social Enterprise (VCSE) Leadership Group, Coalition of Race Equality (CORE) Organisations. www.cahn.org.uk / @charleskod Professor Christina Pagel Christina Pagel is a Mathematician and Professor of operational research at University College London within UCL's Clinical Operational Research Unit, which applies operational research, data analysis and mathematical modelling to topics in healthcare. https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=ACPAG88 / @chrischirp Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Co-producer: Kate Jopling @katejopling Cover art by Patrick Blower. www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast This episode of Going Viral on trust during the pandemic, has been produced in collaboration with the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator, which was funded by the UKRI Covid-19 research and innovation fund. https://ukpandemicethics.org/ @PandemicEthics_ If you enjoy our podcast - please leave us a rating or review. Thank you!
Mark visits the Science Museum in London to look at their Collecting Covid-19 objects and talk to Natasha McEnroe, the museum's Keeper of Medicine, about their curatorial choices. The collection currently comprises over 400 items relating to the Covid-19 pandemic, including some major works of art. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With: Natasha McEnroe, Keep of Medicine at Science Museum London @natashamcenroe https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/project/collecting-covid-19/ Roxanna Halls on her painting of Katie Tomkins, Mortuary and Post-Mortem Services Manager at West Herts Hospitals NHS Trust, created as part of the Portraits for NHS Heroes project in response to the pandemic https://www.instagram.com/roxanahallsartist/?hl=en @RoxanaHalls https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/blog/artwork-roxana-halls/ Will Haynes, from the University of Sheffield's geography department, on the project, “collecting the loneliness of students in the pandemic” @willr_haynes https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/geography/news/geography-students-publish-research-article Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast If you enjoy our podcast - please leave us a rating or review. Thank you!
Mark visits the Science Museum in London to look at their Collecting Covid-19 objects and talk to Natasha McEnroe, the museum's Keeper of Medicine, about their curatorial choices. The collection currently comprises over 400 items relating to the Covid-19 pandemic, including some major works of art. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With: Natasha McEnroe, Keep of Medicine at Science Museum London @natashamcenroe https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/project/collecting-covid-19/ Roxanna Halls on her painting of Katie Tomkins, Mortuary and Post-Mortem Services Manager at West Herts Hospitals NHS Trust, created as part of the Portraits for NHS Heroes project in response to the pandemic https://www.instagram.com/roxanahallsartist/?hl=en @RoxanaHalls https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/blog/artwork-roxana-halls/ Will Haynes, from the University of Sheffield's geography department, on the project, “collecting the loneliness of students in the pandemic” @willr_haynes https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/geography/news/geography-students-publish-research-article Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast If you enjoy our podcast - please leave us a rating or review. Thank you!
One of the most important functions of journalism is to bear witness to historic events. But in the case of the coronavirus pandemic, some of the most unflinching witnesses to the crisis that engulfed the NHS in 2020-2021 were doctors and frontline health workers. In this episode, the Oxford-based palliative care doctor, Rachel Clarke, recalls her experience of the first wave of Covid-19 as it ripped through the wards of her local hospital and emphasises the importance of holding the government to account for the UK's coronavirus death toll. Recorded at the Department of Journalism at City, University of London on March 10th, Dr. Rachel Clarke's remarks came at a workshop convened with the Science Museum on “Connecting in the time of Covid”. We will be sharing further outtakes from the workshop in forthcoming episodes. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Dr. Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford https://www.doctoroxford.com/ @cityjournalism “Connecting in the time of Covid”: https://tinyurl.com/2p9ez37h Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast If you enjoy our podcast – please leave us a rating or review. Thank you!
One of the most important functions of journalism is to bear witness to historic events. But in the case of the coronavirus pandemic, some of the most unflinching witnesses to the crisis that engulfed the NHS in 2020-2021 were doctors and frontline health workers. In this episode, the Oxford-based palliative care doctor, Rachel Clarke, recalls her experience of the first wave of Covid-19 as it ripped through the wards of her local hospital and emphasises the importance of holding the government to account for the UK's coronavirus death toll. Recorded at the Department of Journalism at City, University of London on March 10th, Dr. Rachel Clarke's remarks came at a workshop convened with the Science Museum on “Connecting in the time of Covid”. We will be sharing further outtakes from the workshop in forthcoming episodes. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Dr. Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford https://www.doctoroxford.com/ @cityjournalism “Connecting in the time of Covid”: https://tinyurl.com/2p9ez37h Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast If you enjoy our podcast – please leave us a rating or review. Thank you!
Pandemics don't tend to register in collective memory and there are almost no memorials to the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic, but Covid-19 looks set to be different. Today Mark and Hannah visit the ‘National Covid Memorial Wall' on the South Bank of the Thames in London, opposite the Houses of Parliament. Stretching 500 metres along Albert Embankment, the wall is an audacious work of guerrilla art, comprising of 150,000 hand-drawn hearts – one for every British victim of the coronavirus. To find out more, Mark speaks to the founders of the group ‘Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice' - Jo Goodman, Matt Fowler and Nathan Oswin, who dreamt up the people's memorial. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Hannah Mawdsley @HannahMawdsley Jo Goodman Matt Fowler Nathan Oswin @CovidJusticeUK / @CovidMemorialUK For more information about the National Covid Memorial Wall, visit: www.covidfamiliesforjustice.org Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast If you enjoy our podcast – please leave us a rating or review. Thank you!
Pandemics don't tend to register in collective memory and there are almost no memorials to the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic, but Covid-19 looks set to be different. Today Mark and Hannah visit the ‘National Covid Memorial Wall' on the South Bank of the Thames in London, opposite the Houses of Parliament. Stretching 500 metres along Albert Embankment, the wall is an audacious work of guerrilla art, comprising of 150,000 hand-drawn hearts – one for every British victim of the coronavirus. To find out more, Mark speaks to the founders of the group ‘Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice' - Jo Goodman, Matt Fowler and Nathan Oswin, who dreamt up the people's memorial. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Hannah Mawdsley @HannahMawdsley Jo Goodman Matt Fowler Nathan Oswin @CovidJusticeUK / @CovidMemorialUK For more information about the National Covid Memorial Wall, visit: www.covidfamiliesforjustice.org Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast If you enjoy our podcast – please leave us a rating or review. Thank you!
In this special episode, supported by the Department of Journalism at City, University of London, Mark speaks to three UK-based health and science reporters about the highs and lows of covering the Covid-19 pandemic: Sarah Boseley, The Guardian’s Health Editor; Victoria Macdonald, Health and Social Care Editor at Channel 4 News and Shaun Lintern, the Independent’s Health Correspondent. What’s it been like being on the front line of the story of the century? And looking back, what do they wish they had known earlier or done differently? Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Sarah Boseley, The Health Editor of The Guardian @sarahboseley www.theguardian.com/profile/sarahboseley Victoria Macdonald, Health and Social Care Editor, Channel 4 News @vsmacdonald www.channel4.com/news/by/victoria-macdonald Shaun Lintern, Health Correspondent, Independent @ShaunLintern www.independent.co.uk/author/shaun-lintern This episode is supported by the Department of Journalism, City, University of London www.city.ac.uk/about/schools/arts-social-sciences/journalism Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_Pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast
In this special episode, supported by the Department of Journalism at City, University of London, Mark speaks to three UK-based health and science reporters about the highs and lows of covering the Covid-19 pandemic: Sarah Boseley, The Guardian’s Health Editor; Victoria Macdonald, Health and Social Care Editor at Channel 4 News and Shaun Lintern, the Independent’s Health Correspondent. What’s it been like being on the front line of the story of the century? And looking back, what do they wish they had known earlier or done differently? Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Sarah Boseley, The Health Editor of The Guardian @sarahboseley www.theguardian.com/profile/sarahboseley Victoria Macdonald, Health and Social Care Editor, Channel 4 News @vsmacdonald www.channel4.com/news/by/victoria-macdonald Shaun Lintern, Health Correspondent, Independent @ShaunLintern www.independent.co.uk/author/shaun-lintern This episode is supported by the Department of Journalism, City, University of London www.city.ac.uk/about/schools/arts-social-sciences/journalism Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_Pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast
On 22 June 1918, the Manchester Guardian reported that a flu epidemic was moving through the British Isles. It was noted to be ‘by any means a common form of influenza’. Eventually, it took the lives of more than 50 million people around the world. In a special episode to mark the Guardian’s 200th anniversary, Nicola Davis looks back on the 1918 flu pandemic and how it was reported at the time. Speaking to science journalist Laura Spinney, and ex-chief reporter at the Observer and science historian Dr Mark Honigsbaum, Nicola asks about the similarities and differences to our experiences with Covid-19, and what we can learn for future pandemics. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod
Today Mark explores the discovery of the first vaccine, against Smallpox in 1796, by the English country doctor Edward Jenner. With Owen Gower, General Manager of Dr. Jenner’s House Museum. Meanwhile, Melissa catches up with Mark’s progress in the Novavax Covid-19 vaccine trial, the very latest in vaccine science. From Smallpox to Covid-19: this is the house that Jenner built. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Owen Gower, General Manager, Dr. Jenner’s House, Museum and Garden, The home of vaccination. @owentg jennermuseum.com / @DrJennersHouse Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast If you enjoy our podcast please leave us a rating or review - thank you!
Today Mark explores the discovery of the first vaccine, against Smallpox in 1796, by the English country doctor Edward Jenner. With Owen Gower, General Manager of Dr. Jenner’s House Museum. Meanwhile, Melissa catches up with Mark’s progress in the Novavax Covid-19 vaccine trial, the very latest in vaccine science. From Smallpox to Covid-19: this is the house that Jenner built. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Owen Gower, General Manager, Dr. Jenner’s House, Museum and Garden, The home of vaccination. @owentg jennermuseum.com / @DrJennersHouse Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast If you enjoy our podcast please leave us a rating or review - thank you!
This is not the first time scientists have raced to develop vaccines against a new disease. In the 1960s, scientists faced a similar crisis over rubella, also known as German measles. Today Mark explores the race to create the rubella vaccine with Dr. Stanley Plotkin, dubbed ‘The Godfather of Vaccines’. In 1964, working in his Wistar Institute laboratory in Philadelphia, Stanley developed the rubella vaccine — the “R” in MMR— that’s now used across the world. And Melissa speaks to science writer Meredith Wadman about the ethics of creating the rubella vaccine. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Dr. Stanley Plotkin, Professor Emeritus at the Wistar Institute and University of Pennsylvania, and consultant to the vaccine industry. vaccinestoday.eu/stories/author/splotkin/ Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman, Reporter @ScienceMagazine, Author of "The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease”. meredithwadman.com sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/physician-whose-1964-vaccine-beat-back-rubella-working-defeat-new-coronavirus Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast
This is not the first time scientists have raced to develop vaccines against a new disease. In the 1960s, scientists faced a similar crisis over rubella, also known as German measles. Today Mark explores the race to create the rubella vaccine with Dr. Stanley Plotkin, dubbed ‘The Godfather of Vaccines’. In 1964, working in his Wistar Institute laboratory in Philadelphia, Stanley developed the rubella vaccine — the “R” in MMR— that’s now used across the world. And Melissa speaks to science writer Meredith Wadman about the ethics of creating the rubella vaccine. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Dr. Stanley Plotkin, Professor Emeritus at the Wistar Institute and University of Pennsylvania, and consultant to the vaccine industry. vaccinestoday.eu/stories/author/splotkin/ Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman, Reporter @ScienceMagazine, Author of "The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease”. meredithwadman.com sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/physician-whose-1964-vaccine-beat-back-rubella-working-defeat-new-coronavirus Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast If you are enjoying our series do leave us a rating or review! Thank you
Zehn Jahre lang hat der britische Medizinhistoriker Mark Honigsbaum die Geschichte der Pandemien erforscht und nun ein beeindruckendes Überblickswerk veröffentlicht. Sein Fazit zu Corona: Es mangelte vorab nicht an Wissen und Warnungen, doch wir waren zu träge, um aus der Geschichte zu lernen. Von Christina Janssen www.deutschlandfunk.de, Andruck - Das Magazin für Politische Literatur Hören bis: 19.01.2038 04:14 Direkter Link zur Audiodatei
Korea24 – 2021.02.18. (Thursday) - News Briefing: The U.S. Justice Department has charged three North Korean computer programmers for a broad range of global hacks, including the attack that targeted an American movie studio and an attempted extortion and theft scheme that targeted over one-point-three billion dollars from banks and businesses. (Robert Koehler) - In-Depth News Analysis: Dr. Mark Honigsbaum, a lecturer at City University of London who specializes in the history and science of infectious diseases, talks about past global outbreaks that can be compared to the COVID-19 pandemic and what the world has learned from them. - Korea Trending with Lee Ju-young: High schools across the nation will adopt a credit-based system from 2025(고교학점제 도입), lawmaker Jang Hye-young from South Korea’s minor opposition Justice Party makes the TIME100 Next 2021- the only Korean to do so(정의당 장혜영 의원 타임지 ‘넥스트100인’ 선정), and Big Hit Entertainment teams up with Universal Music Group (UMG) to form a new boy group(빅히트-유니버설, 내년 오디션으로 글로벌 보이그룹 결성 예정). - Explore Korea: Andy St. Louis of Seoul Art Friend covers four exhibitions in Seoul that highlight female artists who explore a range of themes and concepts in their work, offering diverse perspectives on contemporary Korean painting. - Morning Edition Preview with Mark Wilson-Choi: Mark shares a piece from the Korea Times that features an expert of the K-pop industry and a Korea Herald story that covers the growing number of baby boomers turning to plastic surgery.
It’s the science story of the century - how successful vaccines against Covid-19 have been created in under a year. Mark explores the back-story on how they did it so quickly with Dr Anthony Fauci, Director of the NIAID and Sarah Gilbert from the Jenner Institute, Oxford. He gets the low down on the vaccine science from scientist Rob Swanda and he talks vaccines vs. variants with Wendy Barclay from Imperial College London. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NIAID Director www.niaid.nih.gov/about/director Professor Sarah Gilbert, Saïd Professorship of Vaccinology, Jenner Institute & Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine www.jenner.ac.uk/team/sarah-gilbert Rob Swanda @ScientistSwanda / Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UClU56Y1m8J9w82itIEXEHFQ?view_as=subscriber Professor Wendy Barclay, Action Medical Research Chair Virology, Imperial College London. www.imperial.ac.uk/people/w.barclay Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast If you enjoy these podcasts, please leave us a rating or review. Thank you.
It’s the science story of the century - how successful vaccines against Covid-19 have been created in under a year. Mark explores the back-story on how they did it so quickly with Dr Anthony Fauci, Director of the NIAID and Sarah Gilbert from the Jenner Institute, Oxford. He gets the low down on the vaccine science from scientist Rob Swanda and he talks vaccines vs. variants with Wendy Barclay from Imperial College London. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NIAID Director www.niaid.nih.gov/about/director Professor Sarah Gilbert, Saïd Professorship of Vaccinology, Jenner Institute & Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine www.jenner.ac.uk/team/sarah-gilbert Rob Swanda @ScientistSwanda / Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UClU56Y1m8J9w82itIEXEHFQ?view_as=subscriber Professor Wendy Barclay, Action Medical Research Chair Virology, Imperial College London. www.imperial.ac.uk/people/w.barclay Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast
Did you see the Handforth Parish Council virtual meeting? Everyone else did! Adam is joined by Mathamatician, Hannah Fry, and Medical Historian, Mark Honigsbaum, to talk about how pandemics actually end. And Radio 4’s Melvyn Bragg pops in to explain How to... Melvyn Bragg. It’s a bumper podcast for your locked down weekend. Producers: Alix Pickles, Ben Weisz, Danny Wittenberg, Georgia Coan, Kameron Virk, Rick Kelsey Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos
In this first episode of Past Caring, a podcast from the Royal College of Nursing Library and Archive, Frances Reed explores the essential role that nurses have played in tackling pandemics throughout history. She chats to: infection control expert Rose Gallagher who is supporting the COVID-19 response today; historian Mark Honigsbaum on the role nurses played in the 1918 'spanish flu' pandemic; Jason Warriner, a nurse who remembers all too well the emergence of HIV and AIDS in the 1980s; and artist Mary Beth Heffernan, who created an innovative approach to humanising hazmats suits during the 2014 Ebola outbreak. Links: Pandemic! Nursing 100 years of infection online exhibition (featuring Hampstead Military Hospital Nurses, 1918 image) https://www.rcn.org.uk/library-exhibitions/pandemic-nursing Mary Beth Heffernan PPE Portrait project: https://ppeportrait.org/ The Pandemic Century by Mark Honigsbaum https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/112/1120525/the-pandemic-century/9780753558287.html Image: Physicians expressing their thanks to influenza. Coloured etching attributed to Temple West, 1803 (Wellcome Collection) https://wellcomecollection.org/works/geepqy6x RCN Fair Pay for Nursing campaign https://www.rcn.org.uk/get-involved/campaign-with-us/fair-pay-for-nursing
On New Year’s Eve 2020, Mark took his mum to St Charles’s Hospital in London’s North Kensington to get a shot of the new Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, almost a year after the coronavirus had emerged in Wuhan. It’s the science story of the century - how successful vaccines against Covid-19 have been created in under a year. Mark explores how they did it so quickly with Adrian Hill, Director of the Jenner Institute in Oxford behind the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. And against the backdrop of global vaccine hesitancy, and as Covid-19 cases surge in Britain’s second wave, Mark speaks to Peter Openshaw from Imperial College London about the magic of vaccines. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Professor Adrian Hill, Lakshmi Mittal and Family Professorship of Vaccinology; Director of the Jenner Institute; Co-Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Vaccines; Fellow of Magdalen College. www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/find-an-expert/professor-adrian-hill Peter Openshaw Professor of Experimental Medicine at Imperial College at Imperial College, London. www.imperial.ac.uk/people/p.openshaw / @p_openshaw Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast If you enjoy these podcasts please leave us a rating or review - thank you.
On New Year’s Eve 2020, Mark took his mum to St Charles’s Hospital in London’s North Kensington to get a shot of the new Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, almost a year after the coronavirus had emerged in Wuhan. It’s the science story of the century - how successful vaccines against Covid-19 have been created in under a year. Mark explores how they did it so quickly with Adrian Hill, Director of the Jenner Institute in Oxford behind the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. And against the backdrop of global vaccine hesitancy, and as Covid-19 cases surge in Britain’s second wave, Mark speaks to Peter Openshaw from Imperial College London about the magic of vaccines. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Professor Adrian Hill, Lakshmi Mittal and Family Professorship of Vaccinology; Director of the Jenner Institute; Co-Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Vaccines; Fellow of Magdalen College. www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/find-an-expert/professor-adrian-hill Peter Openshaw Professor of Experimental Medicine at Imperial College at Imperial College, London. www.imperial.ac.uk/people/p.openshaw / @p_openshaw Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast
Disease ecologist Peter Daszak speaks to Mark down the line from his hotel room in Wuhan, China, on day 4 of his quarantine. He’s a member of the World Health Organisation team currently investigating the origins of SARS-CoV-2. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With @PeterDaszak the President of EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to understanding the connections between human, animal, and environmental health. Facebook @EcoHealthNYC Twitter @EcoHealthNYC Instagram @ecohealth_alliance Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast
Disease ecologist Peter Daszak speaks to Mark down the line from his hotel room in Wuhan, China, on day 4 of his quarantine. He’s a member of the World Health Organisation team currently investigating the origins of SARS-CoV-2. Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With @PeterDaszak the President of EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to understanding the connections between human, animal, and environmental health. Facebook @EcoHealthNYC Twitter @EcoHealthNYC Instagram @ecohealth_alliance Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast
It’s time for the Super Awesome Science Show SASS Class on panic.. I want to thank everyone who reached out to me. We received several questions, many of which were asked more than once. And then there was one that it seems everyone wanted to ask. Our guest is again Mark Honigsbaum at the City University of London, author of the book, “The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris.” If you didn’t hear your question, make sure to contact me on Twitter, by Email and now, via voice message at Speakpipe.com/SASS. Just follow the link below and send me your thoughts. Twitter: @JATetro Email: thegermguy@gmail.com Voice Message: https://speakpipe.com/SASS Guest: Mark Honigsbaum https://www.city.ac.uk/people/academics/mark-honigsbaum “The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris” https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-pandemic-century/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
When infections strike, it’s normal for people to be concerned. Depending on the extent of spread within a community, that concern can deepen leading to individual panic and mass hysteria. Whie this is rare for most outbreaks, it is almost guaranteed when large scale epidemics and pandemics occur. This week, we’re going to explore the science behind the panic with Mark Honigsbaum, a Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the City University of London. Last year, he wrote “The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris” and it offers a fascinating glimpse into how pandemics affect us. While we do tackle a number of topics, when it comes to the way society reacts to a contagion, there are always questions If you have any questions, reach out to me on Twitter, by Email, or via voice message at Speakpipe.com/SASS. Just follow the link below and send me your thoughts. Twitter: @JATetro Email: thegermguy@gmail.com Voice Message: https://speakpipe.com/SASS Guest: Mark Honigsbaum https://www.city.ac.uk/people/academics/mark-honigsbaum “The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris” https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-pandemic-century/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared------In this week's episode we brought together two of Britain’s most esteemed experts on global pandemics to discuss what we got wrong about the virus and how we can learn from those mistakes going forward. Drawing on examples from history and scientific research, medical historian Mark Honigsbaum and former Chief Scientific Advisor to the U.K Government Sir David King, outlined the measures that need to be put in place, at both national and international levels, to end the pandemic and prevent this kind of catastrophe from ever happening again. The event was chaired by Manveen Rana, host of Stories of Our Times, a podcast from The Times.To buy Mark Honigsbaum's book click here: https://amzn.to/2FalGYnTo listen to Manveen Rana's podcast click here:https://play.acast.com/s/storiesofourtimes--------------------------Intelligence Squared+. The world's best speakers. Your questions. £4.99 per month.Intelligence Squared+ will bring you live, interactive events every week on our new online platform. Just like at our real-life events, you’ll be able to put your questions to our speakers, vote in live polls and interact with other members of the audience. Your subscription will give you access to multiple events featuring the world’s top thinkers and opinion formers, including Thomas Piketty, Margaret Atwood, Clive Woodward, Thomas Friedman, Meera Syal and Paloma Faith.For a full list of Intelligence Squared+ events and to subscribe, click here: https://bit.ly/2yfYIfm Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
COVID-19 is far from the first pandemic we’ve faced. While many make comparisons to the 1918 flu, we shouldn’t forget about challenging viral and bacterial illnesses of the past like the 1930 parrot fever pandemic, AIDS or Legionnaires outbreaks. And even with improved medical and scientific knowledge about how to cure and prevent illness, we can’t discount viruses and pandemics. As author Mark Honigsbaum writes, “the only thing that is certain is that there will be new plagues and new pandemics. It is not a question of if, we are told, but when.” MPR News host Kerri Miller and Honigsbaum talked Tuesday to discuss what we can learn from pandemics and illnesses of the past as we continue to face the COVID-19 pandemic. Guest: Mark Honigsbaum is a medical historian, journalist and writer. His latest book is “The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris.” What the 1918 flu can teach us about Handling today's pandemic COVID-19 How it compares with other diseases in 5 charts To listen to the full conversation you can use the audio player above. Subscribe to the MPR News with Kerri Miller podcast on: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or RSS.
Georgina Godwin speaks to writer, journalist and medical historian Mark Honigsbaum. His latest book, ‘The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris’, looks at how, despite a century of medical development, pandemics still take us by surprise.
The Alex Salmond Show interviews top public health academic, Professor Michael Baker of Otago University, who details the reasons for New Zealand’s success in eliminating Covid-19 and warns of the worldwide dangers yet to come. Meanwhile the author of ‘Pandemic Century’, Dr Mark Honigsbaum, explains why some countries have succeeded in taming the coronavirus when so many others have struggled.
Professor Tanya Byron sitting in for Michael Rosen examines the language of Covid-19 with author Mark Honigsbaum. Since the outbreak of coronavirus we have had to adopt a new way of talking about life during a pandemic. We've been 'shielding' and 'socially distancing'. Some of us have been 'furloughed'. We've been dismayed by the irresponsible behaviour of 'covidiots' and tried to avoid too much 'doom scrolling'. But has communication about the virus been clear and effective enough? Medical historian Mark Honigsbaum in his book The Pandemic Century - 100 years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris - argues that words matter and that we should learn the lessons of previous pandemics from Spanish Flu to Ebola. Producer: Maggie Ayre
In this episode we’re tackling the coronavirus information overload by comparing three books on pandemics past and present: Outbreaks and Epidemics by Meera Senthilingam, Adam Kucharski’s The Rules of Contagion, and The Pandemic Century by Mark Honigsbaum (the only one written well before the current pandemic hit). Find out what we thought about each of these titles, what readers might get out of them, and hear from Outbreaks and Epidemics author Meera Senthilingham about what it was like to write about pandemics while being in the middle of one.
Medical historian and journalist Mark Honigsbaum, author of The Pandemic Century, compares the current Covid-19 pandemic, and our responses to it, to previous diseases outbreaks over the past 100 years. Historyextra.com/podcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Golden Voice narrator John Lee is no stranger to British history, and he is skilled with all of the accents and speech patterns to make both historical and contemporary characters sound vibrant. John’s rich, smooth voice keeps momentum through long historical audiobooks, including DARKEST HOUR by Anthony McCarten, a 2019 Audie Award-winning History/Biography audiobook. He has a gift with many British accents and is able to set the tone and style for mysteries and histories set in England. One timely listen is THE PANDEMIC CENTURY by Mark Honigsbaum. On today’s podcast, host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Robin Whitten discuss John Lee’s narration of ALEXANDER THE GREAT: His Life and His Mysterious Death, by Anthony Everitt. It’s a first-rate audiobook history examining a story now 23 centuries old, and John lends it his compelling voice. Discover an audiobook told with a freshness and clarity rarely experienced in a biography of an ancient figure. Published by Random House Audio. Find more audiobook recommendations at audiofilemagazine.com Support for Behind the Mic comes from Oasis Audio, publisher of the complete Edgar Rice Burroughs Authorized Library and the all-new Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mark returns to a subject close to his heart: the Spanish Flu of 1918/19 and asks what can we learn from that pandemic of 100 years ago? With Wendy Moore and Hannah Mawdsley. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Wendy Moore, author of The Knife Man; Wedlock; How to Create the Perfect Wife; and The Mesmerist. Her new book is ENDELL STREET: The Trailblazing Women who ran World War One’s Most Remarkable Military Hospital (Atlantic, UK). Published in the US (Basic Books) as NO MAN’S LAND: The Trailblazing Women who ran Britain’s most extraordinary Military Hospital during World War 1. You can hear ENDELL STREET adapted for BBC Radio 4 here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jmpp Twitter @wendymoore99 www.wendymoore.org Hannah Mawdsley, Twitter: @HannahMawdsley Series Producer Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod Follow us on Instagram goingviral_thepodcast
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