Andrew Wehrman On Why It Is Crucial To Study Pandemics Of The Past
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🗓️ 5 July 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Ryan speaks with Andrew Wehrman about his new book The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution, how and why responses to health emergencies in the past are strangely similar to those of today, how major historical events always coincide with medical events of the day, the wisdom that studying history can impart on us, and more.
Andrew Wehrman is a historian, author, and an associate professor of history at Central Michigan University whose work focuses on popular politics of medicine in early America. His writing has appeared in The New England Quarterly, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post. He has been awarded the Muir Whitehill Prize in Early American History, and his most recent book The Contagion of Liberty, is currently a finalist for the LA Time Book Prize for History. Andrew’s work can be found on his website andrewwehrman.com.
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| 1:01.0 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. You should know by now that Marcus are really a |
| 1:10.0 | lives through a major pandemic and actually name it partly after him the Antenine to play. It's a devastating pandemic that last |
| 1:16.0 | not for a couple years but 15 years and then we flash forward to the founding of America influenced as it was by |
| 1:25.5 | Stoic philosophy and once again they're in the middle of a similar outbreak a smallpox is the scourge of |
| 1:33.0 | the 18th century and |
| 1:35.6 | Washington has to make the decision about using this new found technology of |
| 1:42.4 | inoculation to |
| 1:45.0 | protect people from this disease |
| 1:48.0 | And that's why I was actually fascinated to talk to today's guest Andrew Wyrman |
| 1:53.1 | He's a historian a writer and associate professor of history at Central Michigan University |
| 1:58.0 | It's a PhD from Northwestern and an M.A.T. and a BA from the University of Arkansas and he's an expert on that period of |
| 2:08.0 | American history colonial and revolutionary |
| 2:10.2 | America and the history of medicine and disease and public health and |
| 2:14.7 | I wanted to talk to him because I'm fascinated with |
| 2:18.6 | the intersection between |
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