Narratives of Disease
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This conversation focuses on the expectations we bring to pandemics, including their timelines and human responses. It ranges from contemporary vaccine science to medieval laws to zombies, as these three scholars consider how we construct stories about disease and use them to understand our experience of it.
Dr. Laurieann Klockow is a virologist who teaches in Biomedical Sciences, including a new class focused on understanding Covid-19.
Dr. Lezlie Knox is a medieval historian who teaches a course on the Black Death and other historical pandemics.
Dr. Brittany Pladek is a scholar of Romantic literature and its intersections with nineteenth-century medical practice.
For more information on the podcast or the research being done at Marquette University, you can visit Marquette's COVID-19 research initiative here: https://www.marquette.edu/innovation/covid-19-research.php
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Music is "Phase 2" by Xylo Ziko https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Xylo-Ziko/Phase_2
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