Underreported: The Psychology of Disease Panic

EPISODE · Apr 30, 2009 · 23 MIN

Underreported: The Psychology of Disease Panic

from Underreported from WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show · host New York Public Radio, WNYC

The emergence of Swine Flu has set off a pandemic panic, but why? Dr. Robert Klitzman is Director of the Ethics and Policy at the HIV Center at Columbia University and researches why our culture overreacts to some diseases like Swine Flu but under-reacts to other threats. His latest book is When Doctors Become Patients.

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