Episode 146 - Pandemic India with David Arnold

David Arnold (Warwick University, emeritus) joins Merle and Lee to chat about his recent book on pandemics in India since the 19th century. After the standard introductions, David reflects on the definition of pandemic and how it began to be used in the 1860s, with discussions of the role of Alfred Crosby’s book and the broader phenomena of writing about disease. The conversation then focuses on…