The History of 19th-Century Quarantine Politics: A Conversation with David S. Barnes
Peoples & Things
How to Deal With an Epidemic in a Different Period
I think our collective reaction to COVID demonstrated if nothing else that were not used to reacting to epidemics. So, for instance, you teach a you teach a class on epidemic history, right? So I do. How do you try to give people a taste of what people said and wrote about health and disease in a time where when epidemics were familiar and all too commonplace?" "For better or for worse, that was actually the best way to avoid yellow fever," he says.
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