2020 Estes Lecture - History in an Epidemic: The Puzzles of Covid-19
Channel: Boston Medical Library
Date: 2020-09-24

Explore the history of epidemics and the future of COVID-19 with Harvard's Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine, Dr. David Jones.

In this lecture, Dr Jones will explore how knowledge of the history of epidemics can help us to understand the current epidemic of Covid-19 and to speculate about what the future might bring. He will also focus on comparisons with influenza in 1918, for which the second wave began in Boston in September 1918.

 David Jones is the Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine at Harvard University. His research has focused on the causes and meanings of health inequalities and the history of decision making in cardiac therapeutics. His teaching at Harvard College and Harvard Medical School explores the history of medicine, medical ethics, and social medicine.

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