HPS Talk: How the Histories of Medicine and Public Health Have Fared in the Media During Covid-19

HPS Talk: "How the Histories of Medicine and Public Health Have Fared in the Media During Covid-19," by Rebecca Onion, Slate (History and Philosophy of Science Talks)

History and Philosophy of Science Talks – Friday, October 29, 2021

Rebecca Onion is a Slate staff writer and the author of Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Popular Science in the United States (University of North Carolina Press, 2016).

The following links connect to articles referenced in the talk:

https://slate.com/human-interest/the-vault

http://www.rebeccaonion.com/clips/

https://www.vqronline.org/criticism/2014/10/letters-note

https://slate.com/technology/2020/02/women-hand-washing-more-than-men-why-coronavirus.html

https://slate.com/culture/2020/03/coronavirus-medicare-for-all-history-pandemic-social-safety-net.html

https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/05/1918-pandemic-cultural-memory-literature-outka.html

https://slate.com/technology/2019/02/spanish-flu-women-nurses-heroism.html

https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/07/contagion-guilt-school-reopening-covid.html

https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/08/immunoprivilege-yellow-fever-new-orleans-covid.html

https://slate.com/tag/history-of-vaccine-rollouts

https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/03/pandemic-hangovers-historical-changes-covid-disease.html

https://slate.com/technology/2021/07/immanuel-pfeiffer-smallpox-antivaxxer-covid-vaccines-history.html

https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/10/red-covid-southern-vaccine-resistance.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/10/how-public-health-took-part-its-own-downfall/620457/

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/1918-influenza-pandemic-history-coronavirus/619801/

http://www.rebeccaonion.com/pitch-me

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