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The Pandemic Century

07/13/2020
66 min
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Speakers: Mark Honigsbaum, Zoe Strimpel

The last one hundred years, from the Spanish flu of 1918 to Covid-19, has been marked by a succession of unanticipated pandemic alarms. Author Mark Honigsbaum talks about scares, both infamous and less known, combining reportage with the history of science and medical sociology to artfully reconstruct epidemiological mysteries and the ecology of infectious diseases. An online conversation with Zoe Strimpel.

About the speakers

Mark Honigsbaum

Mark Honigsbaum is a writer and journalist specialising in the history and science of infectious disease. A regular contributor to The Observer and The Lancet, his books include a global history of malaria and a social history of the 1918 influenza pandemic, Living With Enza, which was nominated for the Royal Society science book of […]
Zoe Strimpel

Zoe Strimpel is a columnist for the Sunday Telegraph and a regular contributor to the Spectator, Times Radio and Radio 4. She has PhD in modern British history from Sussex. Image © Bill Knight

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The Pandemic Century

07/13/2020
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66 min

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Mark Honigsbaum

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Mark Honigsbaum is a writer and journalist specialising in the history and science of infectious disease. A regular contributor to The Observer and The...

Zoe Strimpel

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Zoe Strimpel is a columnist for the Sunday Telegraph and a regular contributor to the Spectator, Times Radio and Radio 4. She has PhD...