Mark Honigsbaum’s The Pandemic Century: A History of Global Contagion from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19, is both a fascinating story of the last hundred years of deadly plagues and a medical thriller. However, are pandemics caused by germs alone? In conversation with Carl Zimmer, author of A Planet of Viruses, he considers whether an understanding of the history of contagion gives us a chance to stop repeating mistakes. Mark Honigsbaum is a medical historian, journalist and author of five books. Carl Zimmer is Adjunct Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University.
This session will be brought you you with the generous support of the Waring Historical Library of the Medical University of South Carolina.