May 28, 2020
100 Year Lives in Asia
Episode 3: Social Distancing – A Historical Perspective

Speakers:
Kathleen Cagney, Ph.D.
Chair of 100 Year Lives in Asia
Professor of Health Studies, Sociology, and Comparative Human Development
The University of Chicago

Howard Markel, Ph.D.
George E. Wantz, M.D. Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine Director, Center for the History of Medicine
Professor of Pediatrics; Psychiatry; Public Health Management and Policy; History; and English Literature and Language
University of Michigan

Christopher Kindell, M.D., Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Social Sciences Teaching Fellow
Department of History and the College
The University of Chicago

What has history taught us about COVID-19? World-renowned medical historian, Howard Markel, M.D., Ph.D. and UChicago expert of social science, Christopher Kindell, Ph.D. look back at pandemics that occurred a century ago to explore COVID-19 through the lens of history. The experts, together with Kate Cagney, Ph.D., discuss how scientists, doctors, and politicians responded to COVID-19 by learning from responses to the 1918 Flu Pandemic and the 1886 leprosy spread in Hawaii. By outlining the similarities and differences of quarantine measures between past and present pandemics, Cagney, Markel, and Kindell provide insight into how the past has defined the meaning of social distancing and how the COVID-19 situation will continue to evolve in the months to come.



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