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Its an author discussion on the potential longterm effects covid19 will have on society. Hello, im brian tate and i am pleased to welcome you to to the 2020 brooklyn book festival. We are here today with authors paola giordano, Mark Honigsbaum and sonia shah. Im gonna read very brief bios. Mark honigsbaum is a medical historian, journalist, author of five books including the pandemic century 100 years of panic, hysteria, and who works. And the fever trail in search for the cure for malaria. His current elector at City University london. Paola giordano is a physicist and author of four internationally bestselling novels including the solitude of prime numbers, which are sold over a million copies worldwide. His essay how contagion works published in italy at the beginning of the coronavirus emergency as the mathematics of contagion was shared more than 4 million times and he ....
Authors justin is an assistant professor of philosophy at texas tech university. Brandon is an assistant professor. At the State University he specializes in ethics, moral psychology and social philosophy. We will be taking audience questions online. Whether youre watching this event via Facebook Twitter or the website. Thank you for joining us. Thanks for having us. What is grandstanding if you want the bumpers sticker description of grandstanding it is is using discussions of morality or politics as a vanity project. To make themselves look like moral paradigms. We want something a little bit more detailed. That grandstanding simply has two parts. They want them to think certain things about them. They come to believe that they have certain impressive moral properties we call this the recognition desire. They want to be recognized as having certain moral qualities. They ....
Can do via a link in the chat which i just posted. We support our authors. With that out of the way, i welcome sonia shah the science of journalists and prizewinning author. Her writing on science, politics and human rights has appeared in the new york times, wall street journal and Foreign Affairs among many others and has been featured on a radio lab fresh air and ted. Com. With her talk, three reasons why we have not gotten rid of malaria. Also author of the 70 several books including pandemic. Today we will talk about her new book, the next great migration which provides an overview of migration and often the negative responses it provokes. Some may claim its a Destructive Force that she argues migration is an ancient lifesaving response to environmental change in the book makes the case for a future in which migration is not a source of a fear. Without further ado, h ....
Finally sampled fruit bats and found the viruses that killed the animals and they called it hendren a virus. It hasnt killed many people, doesnt pass from human to human but it is a knock on the door. A reminder to us of where these things come from, how they emerge, why they spillover some of the fact that they are not called independent cases that are part of a pattern in the pattern reflects things we humans are doing on the planet and they get into humans and in some cases because a local outbreak which is easily controlled or comes to a end on its own and in other cases they cause widespread suffering and death. Is the coronavirus continues to affect the country we are taking a look at author programs about pandemics we have had in our archives. Up next john barry discusses his book the great influenza which discusses the 1918 influenza outbreak. Heres a portion of his book from 2004. Now you have the enemy, the enemy of course is a virus. All influenza viruses are bird viruses. E ....
Has beent on q a, he on the front lines as a prominent member of the White House Coronavirus task force. When you are dealing in the interface of politics, policy, and medicine, the thing ive found to be very effective is beacon system, be totally honest, and do not tell people things that you think they may want to hear. That ism the truth based on evidence, because even though politicians, be they in the administration or in the congress, may not be happy with what you tell them, because it disappoints them, they will respect you, if, after a while, it is clear to them that you are telling them the truth, based on scientific evidence. We will profile dr. Anthony fauci, director of the National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases, looking at his personal life, his relationships with past presi ....