EP #208 - 01.25.2021 - The Pandemic and the History of Medicine

Today is a COVIDCalls history of public health and medicine session with Deborah Levine and Jacob Steere-Williams.

Deborah Levine is a scholar in the areas of the history of medicine, health, patient experience, health insurance, and disease at Providence College. She regularly presents at national and international conferences. In addition, her work often appears in scholarly journals, and her expertise has been sought by media outlets that include The Washington Post, The New York Times, and CBS Evening News.  

Jacob Steere-Williams is a historian of epidemic disease and public health, and an Associate Professor at the College of Charleston. He is the author of the recently published book, The Filth Disease: Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England, with the University of Rochester Press. Jacob has been active during the COVID-19 pandemic in engaging in public scholarship, writing op-eds in local and national media outlets, giving public lectures, and organizing a oral history project in Charleston.