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Word of Mouth: Naming Diseases

06/02/2018

Naming Diseases

BBC Radio 4 - Word of Mouth, Naming Diseases

Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright explore how diseases are named.

Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright explore how diseases are named and the political, economic and social fallout from disease names past and present.

Michael Rosen and Laura Wright explore how diseases are named and the political, economic and social impact of disease names past and present. Joining them are Laura Spinney, Science journalist and author of Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World and Professor Peter Piot; Ebola co-discoverer and AIDS pioneer, currently Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and professor of global health.

Producer: Sarah Addezio.

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