Culture, Technology, and Epidemics Through History
The illnesses that we have faced over the course of human civilization have been heavily influenced by the cultural and technological contexts that they interacted with. Rebecca Dean, Professor of Anthropology comes on the show to teach us about it!
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Hosts: Ian R Buck
Guests: Rebecca Dean
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Episode summary
- 00:00:00 | Intro
- 00:04:25 | Pubic Lice
- 00:13:33 | Misdirected Blame
- 00:18:01 | Cultural Adaptation
- 00:30:21 | Going Back to Old Ways of Dealing
- 00:34:30 | New Technologies
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- Protecting Civil Liberties During a Public Health Crisis | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Apple and Google partner on COVID-19 contact tracing technology
- 2 billion phones cannot use Google and Apple contact-tracing tech
- Coronavirus misinformation is the latest test for social media platforms
- How a 5G coronavirus conspiracy spread across Europe | Free to read | Financial Times
- 00:41:25 | The Butterfly Effect
- 00:43:51 | Cultural Context Creates Scenarios
- 01:06:29 | Outro
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