Heretical Ideas on Health in African History and Beyond
Toby Green joins Frank Armstrong for a wide-ranging discussion based on his new book The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles Over Life in a Seventeenth-Cenury West African Port. The book exhumes the records ...
20 Joulu 202553min
LA Uprising: How Fear Shaped California’s Covid Response
Our recent photography competition winner Ross Novie joins Frank Armstrong to discuss his winning entry, featuring his masked daughter on a family outing to Yellowstone National Park in Montana. Ross ...
19 Marras 202547min
The Impact of Peru's Harsh Military Lockdown - Part 6: Peru’s Military Lockdown: A Lasting Educational Crisis.
Peru’s harsh military-enforced lockdown had devastating effects on education, deepening inequalities and leaving long-term scars on students. Professor Norma Correa Aste, argues school closures were i...
12 Maalis 20259min
The Impact of Peru's Harsh Military Lockdown - Part 5: The Cost of Remote Learning - an Ongoing Problem
In this podcast Professor Norma Correa Aste, a Peruvian anthropologist, shows how lockdown measures have a detrimental and lasting impact beyond the pandemic, with the government using remote learning...
12 Maalis 202516min
The Impact of Peru's Harsh Military Lockdown - Part 4: Lockdowns and the hidden costs.
In this podcast, Professor Norma Correa Aste, a Peruvian anthropologist, examines the widespread harms in her country caused by COVID-19 lockdown measures. She discusses the disproportionate impact on...
12 Maalis 202515min
The Global Pandemic - 5 Years On - Part 3: Lockdown and Vaccine Mandate Harms Ignored
Prof David Paton criticised the UK COVID inquiry for focusing on the wrong questions and not questioning the harms of lockdowns and school closures. He was sceptical about the WHO's willingness to lea...
12 Maalis 202518min
The Impact of Peru's Harsh Military Lockdown - Part 3 - Failure of the Health System Amid Public fear
Episode 3 explores the contrasting outcomes of COVID-19 lockdowns in Brazil and Peru. Despite Peru's strict and military lockdown measures, the country suffered a high death toll and severe economic a...
8 Tammi 20259min
