(Pandemic Edition) History and Literature of Disease

Here We Are

Shane Mauss

Science

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Kari Nixon is a disease loving, well-read oddball with a contagious interest in contagion and a wonderful sense of humor. She also has some pretty amazing timing on the release of her first book “Kept from All Contagion:” Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact. We discuss diseases through history, what literature, and how they have appeared in pop culture in the past. We talk about her favorite diseases and some truly horrifying fails in the history of science. Kari Nixon is a Victorian Scholar and Medical Humanities Scholar at Whitworth University in Spokane, WA Follow her at @HalfSickShadows Read, Learn, and Support The Show: All support on Patreon goes to my team: https://www.patreon.com/shanemauss I have an overworked editor, assistant, and media person trying to help me crank out lots of extra episodes of infotainment during this crisis. Hunker down with an audiobook and support your local bookstore with Libro.fm. They're the first audiobook company to make it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through your local bookstore. Offer code: hereweare for 3 months for the price of one. https://libro.fm/redeem/HEREWEARE And there has never been a better time for lifelong learning with The Great Courses http://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/hereweare Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sky Pines and Yeah.
0:03.0	Are we? Yes. Where are we here?
0:06.0	Why are we here? Not entirely clear.
0:09.0	We are are here we are. we are.
0:24.0	Hello everybody and welcome to the Here We Are Podcast.
0:28.0	This is my one, two, three, fourth episode that I've that I've done remotely ever after five and a half years of doing them all in person and having perfect audio.
0:42.2	I'm now, I'm now frantically trying to figure out how to give
0:46.8	people the best quality content I just added this microphone and figured that out.
0:53.6	We're gonna see if that works.
0:55.9	And this is, it's been a bit of a whirlwind for me
1:02.4	in my bunker and I can only imagine so much more intense and
1:10.2	crazy and stressful for way way way more people out there. and These are special pandemic edition episodes of my science
1:25.3	podcast here we are and I want to I want to talk to as many different people in
1:31.4	as many different fields as possible to get as many
1:35.6	perspectives on this as we can and not just hear the same the same stuff on a loop on the news on the news. So with that in mind today I have an
1:47.8	English professor you may be the very first English professor ever on the Here We Are
1:54.0	Podcast. We're sneaking up on 300 episodes. I think I had one
1:58.5	historian once and I think you might be the first English professor and you're recommended to me
2:06.7	Kari Nixon is joining us today Kari thank you for joining us you're at Whitworth
2:11.6	University in Spokane.
2:13.2	Yep.
2:15.0	So is so it's my understanding that that Seattle is
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