EPISODE · Jan 21, 2021 · 55 MIN
It's not just their problem, it's ours too — learning who we are from pandemics, with Kari Nixon
from Unsilent Women · host Poorva Miller
In this episode Poorva talks to Kari Nixon, a medical humanist, author and assistant professor at Whitworth University about how pandemics shape us and our culture. They talk about the cognitive dissonance in accepting the threat of the pandemics and how we cling to the very idea that diseases originate and play out somewhere else. They also examine how Covid-9 will inform our culture and future in the coming decades.
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In this episode Poorva talks to Kari Nixon, a medical humanist, author and assistant professor at Whitworth University about how pandemics shape us and our culture. They talk about the cognitive dissonance in accepting the threat of the pandemics and how we cling to the very idea that diseases originate and play out somewhere else. They also examine how Covid-9 will inform our culture and future in the coming decades.
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It's not just their problem, it's ours too — learning who we are from pandemics, with Kari Nixon
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