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The Daily Stoic
The podcast discussed Wehrman's book about the politics of smallpox during the American Revolution, highlighting the intersection of medical events and historical events, and how responses to health emergencies across different eras show striking similarities. The conversation explored the impact of smallpox on the lives of individuals and families during the revolution, including its effects on soldiers and civilians.
Professor Wierman has a fascinating book called The Contagion of Liberty.
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The podcast discussed Wehrman's book about the politics of smallpox during the American Revolution, highlighting the intersection of medical events and historical events, and how responses to health emergencies across different eras show striking similarities. The conversation explored the impact of smallpox on the lives of individuals and families during the revolution, including its effects on soldiers and civilians.
Professor Wierman has a fascinating book called The Contagion of Liberty.
I read this book several years ago called A Republic of Suffering and it was about sort of the effects on the psyche when you would go through something like the US Civil War, when just so many people died.
I read this book a couple years ago. I think it's called Storm Kings and it was talking about how things like tornadoes even until like the 1700s we didn't understand. And no one had really even seen one.
when I was reading John Embarry's book The Great Influenza you're like oh yeah this was like the defining event of the 20th century and it's not talked about in literature it's not talked about in history it's not talked about in popular culture but it was at the time it there's just this kind of like well that was really unpleasant let's move on from that
Isabella Wilkerson has this wonderful book called Caste and she's talking about how the response is the public health response to the crack epidemic which was basically these it's these people's problem it's not a true public health emergency had we responded differently then how might everyone have been benefited now that we dealt with opioids and fentanyl