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Thinking Allowed: Contagion; changing masculinity in retail

09/01/2013

Contagion; changing masculinity in retail

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Contagion; changing masculinity in retail

Contagion - how commerce spreads disease. Also, 'boys will be boys' or will they?

Laurie Taylor explores contagion and how commerce spreads disease. Plus, do young men working in retail represent a new model of masculinity?

Contagion - how commerce spreads disease. Laurie Taylor talks to Mark Harrison, Professor of the History of Medicine, about the close intertwining between trade and germs from the 14th century to today. His new book explores the development of public health in the Western world as well as the global misuse of quarantines for political ends. Also, young men working in retail. The sociologist, Steven Roberts' research finds evidence for a new and softer kind of masculinity. He's joined by Professor Valerie Walkerdine, who's documented the changing relationship between men and work in a post industrial economy.

Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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