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Laureate Professor Peter C. Doherty (who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize for medicine for his work in immunology) divides his time between St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne.
Professor Doherty is also an author, with several books to his credit, the latest being Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford).
Today, a long interview (by Robin Lindley) with Professor Doherty appears on George Mason University’s History News Network, where they discuss the `enormous influence’ that pandemics have had on human history.
From Alexander the Great (who many believe died from malaria at the age of 32), to the devastating Black Death of Europe in the 1300s, to the Spanish Flu of 1918 – epidemics and pandemics have often dictated the course of human events.
Follow the link below to read the interview in its entirety.
11-4-13
Peter C. Doherty: Pandemics Have Had "Enormous Influence" on History [INTERVIEW]
tags: public health, history of medicine, pandemics
by Robin Lindley
For more on Professor Doherty, you may wish to revisit the following blogs:
mBio: Taubenberger et al. On the 1918 Spanish Flu
Peter Doherty On H5N1 Research
Prof. Peter Doherty On Influenza’s Threat
Professor Peter Doherty On Bird Flu
